Buying time for survivors of domestic violence: a proposal for implementing an exception to welfare time limits

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States should seek to create programs for victims of domestic violence under the discretionary provisions of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. The Act's sixty month lifetime limit on adults' for receiving aid could be waived under the states' discretionary authority. Past and present federal programs such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Violence Against Women Act offer effective principles and guidelines in the states' effort to address the issues regarding domestic violence.

Welfare recipients, Family violence, Domestic violence, United States. Office of Family Assistance. Aid to Families with Dependent Children Program

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Single-family home ordinances: judicial perceptions of local government and the presumption of validity

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The Supreme Court in Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas in 1974 sustained a local zoning ordinance that permitted only single-family residences and which narrowly defined single family. Some state courts followed the Supreme Court's reasoning while others rejected it. This difference results from diverging views on the function of local government: it either deserves deference as the family's protector, or is merely an extension of the state less deserving of deference.

Cases, Local government, Case Note, Zoning law, Single family housing, Housing, Single family

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The revolution in welfare administration: rules, discretion, and entrepreneurial government

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The author discusses the changes in the administrative structure of the US welfare system since 1996. He outlines the shift in the institutional culture of welfare bureaucracy toward one that allows welfare workers to exercise substantial discretion and that seeks to make government act like an entrepreneurial organization.

Methods, Entrepreneurship

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