Inequality Inquiry

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Educational Integrity in Corporate Childcare: Addressing Poor Regulatory Oversight through Head Start’s Compliance Model

Educational Integrity in Corporate Childcare: Addressing Poor Regulatory Oversight through Head Start’s Compliance Model By: Anthony Alas $60.4 billion. That's the annual revenue from childcare...

How Texas’s Immigration Power-Grab Harms Migrants, Legal Immigrants, and Communities

By: Cassandra Whall* Recently, the news is dominated by discussions of a broken immigration system that has been straining the South, and the South’s belief...

New Legislation Seeks to End Marriage Penalty for Supplemental Security Income

By: Skylar Mayhew* Every month, people with disabilities are eligible to receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI). [1] SSI is a disability program funded and administered...

A Civil Gideon? The Case for Universal Representation in Immigration Courts

A Civil Gideon? The Case for Universal Representation in Immigration Courts By: Meg Keiser* In 1932, the Supreme Court began considering the right to counsel...

Texas Legislature doubles down on supporting oil and gas at the cost of renewable energy post-freeze

By: Wills Layton* Background In February of 2021, the state of Texas experienced a freeze that the electric system, consisting of electric sources such as...

The Bystander Standard: Do Survivors of Mass Shootings Qualify for U Visas?

By: Elizabeth Mansfield The aftermath of a mass shooting is never easy. This is especially true for those survivors who have to deal with the...

Will Minnesota’s New Automatic Expungement Laws Have an Effect on Federal Sentences?

By Britane Hubbard* On January 1, 2025, Minnesota’s new automatic expungement statutes will go into effect. [1] Under this new law, the Bureau of Criminal...

The Criminalization of Pregnancy: Etowah County, Alabama Should Raise Alarms for Women

By: Diana Kawka* In Etowah County, Alabama, being pregnant places women at risk of severe punishment for what would otherwise be minor offenses, receiving wildly...

Taking Out the Trash: Is Biden’s Plan for Eliminating Junk Fees an Effective One?

By: Evelyn Doran* In late October, the White House announced that the Department of Labor (DOL) would be publishing a new proposed rule regulating the...

Oregon’s Yamhill County v. Real Property Commonly Known as 11475 NW Pike Road and The Cracks Forming in the Legal Foundation of Civil Forfeiture Laws

By: Christian Purnell* In March of 2018, authorities in Yamhill County, Oregon arrested Cheryl Sublet, a 61-year-old grandmother and military veteran, on charges of possession...