According to an unprecedented new national survey of service providers, problems plague the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, effectively stopping victims of abuse from accessing help when they need it most.
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Federal TANF policy continues to place barriers in the way of the single mothers receiving TANF who wish to go to school even though 40% of TANF recipients have not completed high school.
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This article details the importance of a largely ignored sign of risk and potential lethality in domestic violence cases: intimate partner sexual abuse.
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An extensive report on how the social safety net has been failing, and how Americans need a long-term strategy to eliminate poverty.
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) included several provisions for modernizing state unemployment insurance systems, such as providing access to unemployment insurance benefits to various groups who were not previously covered by state laws, including victims of domestic violence.
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There has been a large gender poverty gap in every year since the official poverty standard was created. In 2009, adult woman were 32 percent more likely to be poor than adult men, with a poverty rate of 13.9% compared to a 10.5% rate for adult men.
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This report, later published in Domestic Violence Report 65 (June/July 2009), explains the connection between economic and personal security for women and family assistance, and focuses on the critical role that family assistance plays in enabling poor women and families to escape abuse and overcome poverty.
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This Report details and analyzes the sharp drop in participation of eligible poor women and children following the adoption of federal welfare reform which encouraged states to cut welfare rolls.
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Transcripts of the opening remarks and the first panel at The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law's 2010 Symposium.
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Transcripts from the presentation of the Legal Momentum Hero Award to Vice President Joe Biden for initiating and championing VAWA at the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law's 2010 Symposium Issue.
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Transcripts of commentary on Panel Two from the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law's 2010 Symposium Issue.
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Transcripts about the impact of VAWA from the third panel of the The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law's 2010 Symposium.
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