Universalism and Anti-Racism in Family Support
Document Type
News Article
Publication Title
Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project
Abstract
My work focuses on understanding the legal institutions that lead to and exacerbate racialized poverty. From this perspective, this book offers much to support and some questions to raise. One of the most simultaneously appealing and disquieting aspects of this book, like its precursor The Supportive State, is Professor Eichner’s turn to universal solutions. In short, she argues that free market family policies harm all families, even if those harms differ across class. As a result, the solutions she proposes are largely universal. In this vein she calls for universal child allowances, publicly-funded early childhood programs, pro-family employment policies and the like.
Publication Date
5-25-2021
Recommended Citation
Bach, Wendy A., "Universalism and Anti-Racism in Family Support" (2021). Tennessee Law in the News. 72.
https://ir.law.utk.edu/in_the_news/72