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Poverty law is the body of laws in which concerns the rights of low-income individuals and families to access government benefits. In the United States, these government benefits are provided by the federal government as well as by state governments. Federal government benefits include Medicaid; cash public assistance (more commonly known as Welfare); and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program, previously known as the food stamps program. Poverty law frequently involves questions of administrative law, civil rights law, constitutional law, employment law, and health law.

(this intro says that "Poverty law is the body of laws in which concerns the rights of low-income individuals and families to access government benefits.") Poverty law is multifaceted and has to do with more than mentioned. It should be rewritten as

The discipline, and practice, of poverty law intersects with a wide sphere of legal and academic topics, including public benefits law, welfare policies, and laws surrounding retirement plans like Social Security. The official definition of poverty law is, "the legal statutes, regulations and cases that apply particularly to the financially poor in his or her day to day life." Furthermore, poverty law itself is a discipline that focuses on the disadvantaged poor being treated fairly under the law.

The original sentence of, "Poverty law frequently involves questions of administrative law, civil rights law, constitutional law, employment law, and health law." can be expanded upon.

Poverty law intersects with administrative law by ensuring that the poor have equal access to government assistance financial programs, including Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), common welfare, and Medicaid.

Poverty law intersects with civil rights law through the protection of civil rights for the poor. Examples of this are firms like, the Southern Poverty Law Center, ensuring that law enforcement agencies do not disproportiantely target individuals based on their socioeconomic status.

Poverty law intersects with health law through actions of health advancement through legal advocacy that centers around the financially vulnerable population. (insert references of poor demographics being disproportionately impacted by health issues).

-I then want to insert the federal regulations on what it means to qualify as being poor.-

These guidelines are for each individual per household (family/household), income that equates or is less than the guideline is considered to be federally poor.

1 = $12,490

2 = $16,910

3 = $21,330

4 = $25,750

5 = $30,170

6 = $34,590

7 = $39,010

8 = $43,430

For families/households with more than 8 persons, add $4,420 for each additional person.

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