Over the last decade, students of the welfare state have produced an impressive body of
research on retrenchment, the dominant thrust of which is that remarkably few welfare states …

In 2001, 1.458 million American families filed for bankruptcy. To investigate medical
contributors to bankruptcy, we surveyed 1,771 personal bankruptcy filers in five federal …

For over two decades, the social policies of advanced democracies have faced major
strains. 1 Yet only recently have analysts devoted themselves in earnest to exploring the …

Credit has become a significant institution within the American social safety net.
Accordingly," access to credit" talk pervades the current discourse of financial rights and …

Organizational theorists have had much to say about how environments affect organizations
but have said relatively little about how organizations shape their environment. This silence …

This article addresses a gap in the international political economy (IPE) literature on housing
finance by highlighting the ways in which the deepening of mortgage debt is part of a …

Abstract As of 2007, an estimated 62% of individual bankruptcy filings in the United States
were a direct result of costs borne from medical treatment following illness or injury, up from …

Objectives. We assessed the health status of people undergoing mortgage foreclosure in the
Philadelphia region to determine if there was a relationship between foreclosure and health …

ARTICLES Page 1 ARTICLES LESS STIGMA OR MORE FINANCIAL DISTRESS: AN
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY INCREASE IN BANKRUPTCY FILINGS …

The principal theory of consumer bankruptcy in America is that it provides a" fresh start" to
debtors.'Courts, 2 Congress, 3 and scholars4 repeatedly cite the fresh start as the …