The final program for the conference I organized and that American University Washington College of Law is hosting on Poverty and Economic Mobility Schedule Final. See below as well.
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast (Arrival and Registration)
9:00-9:30 Davida Finger (Loyola University New Orleans School of Law)
Poverty and Immobility: Economic Fragility and Housing on the Gulf Coast
9:30-10:00 Rebecca Dixon (Enterprise Corporation of the Delta/Mississippi Economic Policy Center)
“Holding Back to Hold on: Current Dilemmas in Economic Mobility, a comparison between Low-Income Families and High Poverty States”
10:00-10:30 Ann Shalleck (American University Washington College of Law)
“The Interpenetration of Family and State: Structural Connections between Family Law and Social Welfare Law in Assignment of Rights to Child Support – Consequences for Anti-Poverty Policy”
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:15 Michael Diamond (Georgetown University Law Center)
“Tenant Ownership, Mixed Income and the Realities of Geography: A Social Dilemma Concerning the Spatial Concentration of Poverty”
11:15-11:45 Karen Czapanskiy (University of Maryland School of Law)
“Families Raising Kids with Chronic Illnesses and Disabling Conditions: Exploring the Relationships Between Legal Invisibility and Poverty”
11:45-12:15 Deval Desai (Harvard Law School)
“‘Riches revolve like the wheels of a chariot’: Judicial imaging of the poor in Unitedstatesean and Indian narratives of economic development”
12:15-1:00 Peter Edelman (Georgetown University Law Center)
Lunch Speaker – Please gather your food quickly.
1:00-1:30 Jonathan Barry Forman (University of Oklahoma College of Law & Professor in Residence IRS Office of Chief Counsel 2009-2010)
“Using Refundable Tax Credits to Help Low-income Taxpayers: What Do We Know and What Can We Learn From Other Countries?”
1:30-2:00 Kami Kruckenberg (Poverty & Race Research Action Council)
“Promoting Improved Health Outcomes for Low Income Children Through Mobility”
2:00-2:30 Barbara Bezdek (University of Maryland School of Law)
“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Seismic Economic Times Reveal our Need for Shared Equity Housing”
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-3:15 Derek Black (Howard University School of Law)
“The Misdirection of Federal Education Funds: Helping Poor Kids or Pushing Educational Agendas?”
3:15-3:45 Daniel L. Hatcher (University of Baltimore School of Law)
“Poverty’s Iron Triangle: The Conversion of Fiscal Federalism and Federal Grant-in-Aid Programs”
3:45-4:15 Daniela Kraiem (American University Washington College of Law)
“Cash and Counseling: Long-Term Care Policy, Poverty and Family Life in the United States”
4:15-4:30 Break
4:30-5:00 Michele Gilman (University of Baltimore School of Law)
“The Class Differential in Privacy Law”
5:00-5:30 Eleanor Brown (George Washington University Law School)
“Visa as Collateral: Making Labor Mobility Bankable for the Migrant Poor”
5:30-6:00 Ann Piccard (Stetson University College of Law)
“Poverty in the United States: Can the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Pave a Path toward Economic Mobility?”
6:00-6:30 Ezra Rosser (American University Washington College of Law)
“Poverty Credits/Poverty Off-Sets”
6:30-8:00 Closing Dinner
Conference Poster
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