Getting By - Economic Rights and Legal Protections for People With Low Income

List of contents

• Introduction


• Chapter 1. Cash Assistance


• Chapter 2. Work-Related Benefits and Employment Protections


• Chapter 3. Food Assistance


• Chapter 4. Health


• Chapter 5. Education


• Chapter 6. Consumer Rights and Credit Protection


• Chapter 7. Housing


• Chapter 8. Rights in Public Spaces


• Chapter 9. Access to Justice: Enforcing Rights and Securing Protection


• Chapter 10. The Right to Vote


• Index

About the author

Helen Hershkoff is the Herbert M. and Svetlana Wachtell Professor of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties at New York University School of Law.

Stephen Loffredo is Professor of Law at the City University of New York School of Law.

Additional text

Hershkoff and Loffredo's volume is a comprehensive critique of the United States' poverty policies as they manifest in different facets of daily life. From food and housing to legal protection, and everything in-between, this in-depth account into the vast ramifications of past and present policy is as startling as it is vital. The authors inform the reader of the expansive socio-economic plights thrust upon the American working class and their rights. Moreover, this compelling book succeeds in unifying an often-divided populace under shared economic disenfranchisement. Getting By: Economic Rights and Legal Protections for People with Low Income is an exceptional chronicle of the United States' tumultuous political path towards equal economic mobility and security. Most impressively, it empowers the downtrodden and equips them with the necessary knowledge of their individual and collective power.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Hershkoff, Helen (Herbert M. And Svetlana Wachtell Hershkoff, Hershkoff Helen, Stephen Loffredo, Loffredo Stephen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.01.2020
• EAN: 9780199938513
• ISBN: 978-0-19-993851-3
• No. of pages: 944
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Civil Rights, United States of America, USA, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Employment & Labour Law, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Employment and labour law: general, Social security and welfare law, Social security & welfare law