Note: Finger Imaging: A 21st Century Solution to Welfare Fraud at our Fingertips

This Note describes the finger imaging process and summarizes the current New York Social Services law regarding public assistance. It also outlines the current finger imaging bill before the New York State Legislature. Part III examines and considers the two major policy arguments against the implementation of the program. Part IV outlines the legal controversy regarding finger imaging and addresses each express concern as well as constitutional issues. Part V compares New York\u27s finger imaging legislation with similar legislation already in place in California and argues that the New York program will be as effective as California\u27s. In conclusion, this Note urges the New York State Legislature to enact a statewide finger imaging requirement for public assistance and embrace the finger imaging system as an effective and proper method of combatting welfare fraud in the state

Note: Finger Imaging: A 21st Century Solution to Welfare Fraud at our Fingertips

This Note describes the finger imaging process and summarizes the current New York Social Services law regarding public assistance. It also outlines the current finger imaging bill before the New York State Legislature. Part III examines and considers the two major policy arguments against the implementation of the program. Part IV outlines the legal controversy regarding finger imaging and addresses each express concern as well as constitutional issues. Part V compares New York\u27s finger imaging legislation with similar legislation already in place in California and argues that the New York program will be as effective as California\u27s. In conclusion, this Note urges the New York State Legislature to enact a statewide finger imaging requirement for public assistance and embrace the finger imaging system as an effective and proper method of combatting welfare fraud in the state

Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders: A Review Article

On March 1, 1968, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders made public its findings concerning the nature, causes, and solutions to the violence which rocked many of the nation\u27s cities during the long, hot summer of 1967. The basic conclusion of the Report is: Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal . The main culprit is said to be white racism. Tom Wicker, of the New York Times, writes in the introduction to the Report: What had to be said has been said at last. Although the conclusion is not new, what is surprising and encouraging is that a national commission composed exclusively of moderates would reach such a conclusion unanimously and would express its findings so effectively

The Political Economy of Female Violent Street Crime

Our research has led us to the conclusion that women in New York City are becoming more and more likely to involve themselves in violent street crimes. This essay analyzes the developing role of women in violent street crime and poses a model, based on both historical analysis and empirical research, to explain the participation of women in violent street crimes in the 1980s

The Chemung Formation of Iowa and Western New York

This paper summarizes the facts as presented in the papers by Laudon and Curry and reviews the general interpretations made by previous writers concerning the relationships of the Iowa and New York upper Devonian. A comparison is made of the Kinderhook fauna of Iowa and the fauna of the Deva-Carboniferous beds of southwestern New York and comparative stratigraphic sections of the areas between Iowa and New York are presented. The conclusion is reached that the upper Chemung of New York interfingers with transition beds which are tentatively correlated with the Kinderhook-Chattanooga formations, but that later Mississippian rocks were not deposited in southwestern New York

Taxi: Cabs and Capitalism in New York City

[Excerpt] Three significant events have happened since 2005 when this book was first published. (1) Starting in 2004, die city of New York began advancing the Taxi Technology Enhancement Program (TTE), which would require every yellow taxi in NYC to be fitted with a non-navigational Global Positioning System-based tracking system. Driver opposition to this system grew over the next three years, leading up to a series of strikes in September and October 2007. Even as we go to press, this battle continues. (2) In early 2007, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA) became the first independent labor union to become a full member of the New York State Central Labor Council, a historic development with tremendous significance for the labor movement. (3) Finally, based on burgeoning interest and several taxi- organizing initiatives emerging throughout the United States, NYTWA along with the Taxi Workers Alliance of Pennsylvania organized a founding meeting of the Taxi Workers International (TWI) in March 2007. All three dramatic events promise long-term effects. In many ways die intertwined nature of these events has given me a more complete understanding of the challenges the contemporary labor movement faces. Accordingly, this Cornell edition carries a new epilogue that not only describes these events arid the actions that surrounded them but also attempts to synthesize them theoretically. The result, I hope, is a compelling conclusion to the book that will open up fresh debates within the labor movement

Chiral Dynamics in the Meson Sector at two Loops

I give a very short introduction to Chiral Perturbation Theory and an overview of the next-to-next-to-leading order three-flavour calculations done. I discuss those relevant for an improvement in the accuracy of the measurement of $V_{us}$ in more detail. One major conclusion is that all needed $p^6$ low energy constants can be obtained from experiment via the scalar form-factor in $K_{\ell3}$ decays.Comment: 5 pages, Talk presented at CIPANP 2003, Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics, New York May 19-24, 200

Enforcement of Arbitral Awards in Sub-Sahara Africa

Text of my presentation at the inaugural conference of the AFSIA in London on 03/12/08. My presentation examined the legal regime for enforcement and setting aside arbitral awards under the laws of OHADA, Nigeria and Sudan. I concluded that implementation of the New York Convention is still the best regime a party wishing to enforce a foreign arbitral award can hope for and should actively seek at the time of conclusion of the arbitration agreement

Recent Incarceration History Among a Sheltered Homeless Population

This study examined incarceration histories and shelter use patterns of 7,022 persons staying in public shelters in New York City. Through matching administrative shelter records with data on releases from New York State prisons and New York City jails, 23.1% of a point-prevalent shelter population was identified as having had an incarceration within the previous two-year period. Persons entering shelter following a jail episode (17.0%) exhibited different shelter stay patterns than those having exited a prison episode (7.7%), leading to the conclusion that different dynamics predominate and different interventions are called for in preventing homelessness among persons released from jail and from prison

The End of Zero Returns and the Last Dollar: Can New York State create a collective store of value, crowdsource wealth, and fund its colleges and universities using cryptocurrency?

This brief personal statement, citing the previous work of the Bronx Community College Cryptocurrency Research Laboratory (BCC Lab), advocates for a private New York State Money to fund New York State’s public higher education. Attempting to shed most of the academic language and the formalities of research-driven writing, this short statement frames two distinct arguments. The first contention is that New York State residents need a means by which to store value outside of the traditional banking and financial systems due to massive Federal Reserve printing that is centered primarily on rescuing fledgling Wall Street profits and mitigating reckless businesses practices. Secondly, this statement explores how a Cryptocurrency, a peer-to-peer staking coin, could be one way for the New York State population to store its wealth while simultaneously funding New York State’s higher education. Lastly, in the conclusion, the work reviews, and then adds as appendices, all of the preceding work of the BCC Lab on cryptocurrency and wealth generation, providing an overview of that work and calling for next steps in the research