The Housing Loophole That Lets Wealthy Investors Raise Rents on Poor Tenants
As the U.S. struggles with a housing shortage, investors continue to exploit a gap in an affordable housing law to raise ...
Behold the Strange Spectacle of Christians Against Empathy
Yet now the focus of Christian right isn’t on the defense of liberty; it’s on the accumulation of power. And it is using that ...
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A deep dive on U.S. reading and math scores, and what to do about them
New research drills down on poor student achievement, and notes some school districts that are beating the odds ...
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Poor knowledge of law killing Nigeria – Nnamdi Kanu
The incarcerated leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Monday said poor knowledge of the law by the courts ... from the case after Kanu asked her to step ...
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America’s Abandonment of the Poor
Dominating the book is an image of institutional space, beige, concrete, and lightless: the warehouse, the hospital, the ...
A Rupture on the Right Over Prosecutors, Politics and the Rule of Law
Differing interpretations of Attorney General Robert H. Jackson’s classic 1940 speech, “The Federal Prosecutor,” figured in ...
Congress, not the president, decides on government spending − a constitutional law professor explains how the ‘power of the purse’ works
Congress has the authority to control government expenditures. Donald Trump is the latest president to try to get around that ...
OPM directs agencies to fire government workers still on probation
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) officials met with agency leaders across government Thursday and directed them to begin ...
Downfall of a ‘Fall-Down’ Statute: The ‘Deconstruction’ of Labor Law §240(1) Under ‘O'Brien v. Port Authority’
In his commentary, Matthew Siegel’s examines elements of Labor Law §240(1)—the “Scaffold Law,”­ which he believes many in the ...
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The Scottish Poor Law – 1845
Scotland's History Land and Votes The Poor Law leads to more Clearances The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to ...