Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2007
ISSN
0199-4646
Publisher
Fordham Law School
Language
en-US
Abstract
To say that poverty remains one of the most pressing issues of our time is a colossal understatement. A staggering number of people on the planet live in poverty. In the United States alone, the working poor and those living at or below the poverty line make up 12.6 percent of our populace.' While these individuals may not all be in imminent danger of starving or homelessness, they often lack basic safeguards that those in the upper socio-economic levels of society take for granted: basic health insurance, access to pension programs, disability coverage, and the certainty of a living wage that keeps pace with inflation. Poverty and its attendant social manifestations (crime, illiteracy, malnutrition, etc.) are urgent social problems.
Recommended Citation
Maria O'Brien,
Creeping Impoverization: Material Conditions, Income Inequality, and ERISA Pedagogy Early in the 21st Century
,
in
34
Fordham Urban Law Journal
1355
(2007).
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