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COVID-19 and The Law

COVID-19 and The Law

Law and Policy to Address Basic Needs and Marginalized Populations

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    • Housing and Food Law
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    • Money, Finance, and Consumers
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Money, Finance, and Consumers

Resources

  •  NY Times: What is Owed: If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes Black Americans (June 30, 2020)
  • Center for American Progress: Systemic Inequality: Displacement, Exclusion, and Segregation: How America’s Housing System Undermines Wealth Building in Communities of Color (Aug. 7, 2019)
  • Center for American Progress: Systematic Inequality: How America’s Structural Racism Helped Create the Black-White Wealth Gap (Feb. 21, 2018)
  • Yahoo Finance: Social Security backlog led to bankruptcies and increased risk of death, government watchdog finds (Aug. 20, 2020) 
  • NY Times: The Coronavirus Generation – Child poverty and a pitch for a child allowance (Aug. 22, 2020)
  • Business Wire: dunnhumby Consumer COVID-19 Study Finds U.S. Grocery Consumers Increasingly Anxious About Rising Food Prices, Economic Health (Aug. 25, 2020)
  • VoxEU and CEPR: The COVID-19 shock and consumer credit (Aug. 8, 2020)
  • Reuters: U.S. consumer confidence at six-year low; underscores concerns about economic recovery (Aug. 25, 2020)
  • The New Republic: How to Save the Pandemic Generation (Sept. 21, 2020)
  • SSRN: The Constitution and the Fed after the COVID-19 Crisis (Jul. 24, 2020)
    • Pdf version: Desan & Orian Peer_The Constitution and the Fed after the COVID-19 Crisis
  • Compilation of papers: 1) Protecting Financial Stability; 2) Financial Response to COVID-19
    • Protecting Financial Stability: Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic (as of June 30, 2020) – includes a summary of government responses to the
      pandemic (Appendix A)
    • The Financial Response to the COVID‐19 Pandemic (as of Aug. 1, 2020)
  • UCLA Law Review Discourse: The Folly of Credit as Pandemic Relief (2020)
  • Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School: Letter to Senator Elizabeth Warren (Jan. 13, 2020)
  • Elizabeth Warren’s Plan To Cancel Student Debt (last visited Oct. 20, 2020)
  • CNBC: Elizabeth Warren says her plan to eliminate student loan debt can bypass Congress (Jan. 14, 2020)
  • Vox: Elizabeth Warren’s ambitious plan to bypass Congress and erase America’s student debt, explained (Jan. 16, 2020)
  • Slate: Elizabeth Warren Says She’ll Cancel Student Loan Debt With or Without Congress’ Permission (Jan. 14, 2020)
  • JAMA: The COVID-19 Pandemic and the $16 Trillion Virus (Oct. 12, 2020)

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