title: On public obligation.
abstract: Poverty has a potent and provable impact on health, education, opportunity, safety, dignity, and overall quality of life for Americans. This article argues that our obligations to ameliorate poverty are not only private, religious, and charitable, they are public and governmental as well.
authors.affiliation: UNC School of Law, Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity, 160 Ridge Road, CB#3380, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599-3380, USA. gnichol@email.unc.edu
authors.forename: Gene R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Nichol
mesh_terms: D006076:Government; D006801:Humans; D011203:Poverty / Q000941:ethics* / Q000517:prevention & control; D011640:Public Policy; D011788:Quality of Life; D012941:Social Responsibility; D014481:United States