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In past rulings, the court has acknowledged that there’s a connection between the ability of women to control their reproductive lives and the economic health of the nation.
An experimental program to provide a college education in prison is about to increase its reach. Is there evidence that it will pay off?
The Senate has a lot of rules, and its parliamentarian interprets what those rules allow – and what they don’t. That can mean a bill will face either huge obstacles, or very few obstacles to passage.
La esterilización forzosa de mujeres indígenas en el Perú de Alberto Fujimori se disfrazó como una estrategia de “planificación familiar”. Más de 250 000 peruanas fueron sometidas a ligaduras de trompas entre 1996 y 2001, muchas de ellas sin su consentimiento.
Forced sterilization of Indigenous women was a covert part of ‘family planning’ under Fujimori. Over 200,000 Peruvians underwent tubal ligations between 1996 and 2001 – many without their consent.
For the first time since 1994, incarcerated individuals can get federal aid to pay for college. A prison education scholar explains how higher education helps those who have run afoul of the law.
For economically strapped Americans, the financial fallout from the epidemic may be permanently embedded in their digital profiles, making it harder for them to regain their economic footing.
States are increasingly turning to machine learning and algorithms to detect fraud in food stamps, Medicaid and other welfare programs – despite little evidence of actual fraud.
A former congressional staffer says withholding damning evidence from Congress and using civilians to carry out presidential or intelligence agency agendas links the Ukraine crisis to other scandals.
The drumbeat of data breaches and the growing problem of identity theft disproportionately harm low-income Americans.
For people in prison to have a better chance at earning a living upon release, Congress should lift a longstanding ban on federal student aid for those serving time, a criminal justice scholar argues.
The Mueller report is out, heavily redacted and the investigative materials it’s based on aren’t public. That’s where Congress comes in, writes a former House counsel. Now they can investigate.
Women make about 81 cents for every dollar a man earns, little changed in recent years. Could more pay transparency change that?
The president and attorney general can try to keep the findings of Mueller’s investigation secret. They’ll likely use both the secrecy of grand jury proceedings and executive privilege to do that.
Through stories of redemption, a professor who oversees a Maryland prison education program says the time has come to restore federal financial aid for America’s incarcerated.
A decade ago, President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the latest legislative effort to close the persistent gap between how much women and men earn. Here’s why it hasn’t made much of a difference.
Courts have created three legal barriers that have made it much harder for workers to complain to their employers about sexual harassment.
The court narrowly ruled that employees who sign arbitration agreements can’t bring class action suits over unpaid wages.
The global elites are paying attention.
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Baltimore
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Adjunct Lecturer, Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences, University of Baltimore
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Professor of Law, University of Baltimore
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Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Sport and the Law, University of Baltimore
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Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center on Applied Feminism, University of Baltimore
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Venable Professor of Law, University of Baltimore
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Professor of Law, University of Baltimore
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Assistant Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Baltimore
