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...originally founded, in part, to defray the costs of Aid to Families with Dependent Children, and the states can still use the money they collect in welfare cases for that purpose. Funds recovered on behalf of nonwelfare mothers, however, simply get passed on to them. The result, says Sue Anderson, a Minnesotan who spent years trying to collect from her ex, is "if you have any sort of income, [the states] don't give you the time of day." Some 7.5 million women nationwide share her frustration...
...book comes at a time when Republicans are making a fetish of balanced budgets, tilting at the last remnants of the New Deal and threatening to pass laws that limit the ability of ordinary citizens to sue companies for negligence. The End of Reform is a reminder that there was a time when popular reform was not about protecting corporations from consumers but shielding consumers from corporations...
Some of these suits seem to be more about money and revenge than about the children. Gordon Clark did not sue for custody until Marcia Clark asked for more child support. The willingness of the courts to let young children be used as poker chips may be one more bow to the Angry White Male. But the signals from the new majority are mixed: work is bad when it takes the professional mother away from her kids, but good for the welfare mother who must leave her children for a job at a minimum wage that she will then...
Meanwhile, the history of the civil litigation from which this episode arose contains complicated details but a simple theme. As is so common these days, a person with a complaint--however unsubstantial--has elected to sue anyone and everyone with hopes that someone will...
...after his lesbian half-sister Candace visited Capitol Hill to lobby for gay rights, House Speaker Newt Gingrich said workers who are fired because they are homosexual should have no right to sue in federal court. During his daily press conference, the Speaker applied a sort of "don't ask, don't tell" principle to the issue, saying that while employers shouldn't ask, employees should have no recourse. The head of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, a gay and lesbian political group represented by Candace Gingrich, speculated that the Speaker is "under pressure from extremists" to make such comments...