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Inaccessible Unemployment Insurance: The Unsupported Reality of Low-Income Single Mothers
In 1998, single mother headed 25 percent of all families with children in the United States. In the six year span between 1993 and 1999, the families maintained by working single mothers jumped from 6.4 to 7.6 million, ... -
Inadequate Workforce Skillset as a Corrosive Disadvantage: Enhancing Marketable Skills to Combat Housing and Homelessness Issues
This paper explores three key themes in addressing the housing and homelessness paradigm: resource distribution, deservingness, and quality of housing. Firstly, on resource distribution, should housing programs maximally ... -
Incarcerated Juveniles in America: Rehabilitation from the Family or the State?
Academia and the government both recognize the importance of the family for incarcerated juveniles. Through an examination of the related publications on the juvenile justice system as well as a youth's need for family, ... -
The Incarceration Addiction: A Toxic, Symbiotic Relationship and an Ethical Response
This paper examines the interlocking factors in the toxic, symbiotic relationship between addiction and incarceration. It begins by discussing the “War on Drugs” that heralded the globally unprecedented swelling of the ... -
Incarceration and Creative Expression: Why Prisons Should Increase Access to Art Materials for Incarcerated People
Understanding and conveying ideas about ourselves is something that makes us fundamentally human. Our identities are defined by the "cooperatively authored world" in which we live: the stories that we share and the people ... -
Inclusion in Privilege: Increasing Emphasis on Savings to Promote Capabilities for All
Defining poverty as lowness of income dominates anti-poverty efforts in America and averts attention away from schemes that promote capabilities that cumulate to build a minimally dignified life. Meanwhile, the emphasis ... -
Income Inequality in America: How Politics and Policy Have Failed the American Poor
The fight against inequality in America will need to be founded upon five major reforms. These reforms include campaign finance reform, publicly funded outreach campaigns to the poor, more redistributive tax policy, more ... -
Incommensurability Reassessed: The Cognitive Science Foundations of World-View (In)comparability (thesis)
Thomas S. Kuhn's contributions to the philosophy of science are among the most prominent and contentious of the 20th century; his Structure of Scientific Revolutions remains one of the most cited philosophical works in ... -
Indentured Servitude in Colonial Virginia: Genteel Ambitions and Harsh Realities
In order to evaluate the status of indentured servants in colonial Virginia, the student must analyze standards of treatment of servants in the context of history. During the seventeenth century, the term "servant" was not ... -
Indians on the Eastern Shore of Virginia: Evolving Relationships with the English and Powhatan Indians
My work parallels that of historian Helen C. Rountree who closely examined the Eastern Shore Indians in Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500 - 1722; Pocahontas's People; The Powhatan Indians of Virginia; and Eastern Shore ... -
Indigent Defense in Virginia: Practical and Empathic Motivations for Reform
In 1999 an estimated $1.2 billion was spent to provide indigent criminal defense in the nation's 100 most populous counties. This $1.2 billion represents an estimated 3% of all local criminal justice expenditures in these ... -
Indigents and the Courts: The Failures of Public Defense Systems
The criminal justice system starts with investigation and arrest and can end with life imprisonment or even death. Along the way there are many steps for which having a good attorney can make a significant difference. This ... -
Influence of Late Jurassic Inversion Structures on Sedimentary Basin Uplift, Chukchi Shelf, Offshore Alaska (thesis)
This thesis examines the existence of a reactivated fault interpreted to be an inversion structure associated with a Jurassic tectonic event in the Chukchi Shelf off the NW coast of Alaska. Brookian, Jurassic, Ellesmerian, ... -
Influence of the Kingak Formation Ultimate Shelf Margin on Frontal Structures of the Brooks Range in National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska (thesis)
Well and seismic data in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) demonstrate that the Jurassic—Lower Cretaceous Kingak Shale is present throughout NPRA. Several southward progradational depositional sequences within ... -
Initial Public Offerings Across Business Cycles
A vast literature exists pertaining to the prediction of stock performance, though a consistent pattern has yet to be found. The efficient market hypothesis provides one possible explanation. IPOs are different, however, ... -
Injustice in Healthcare: A Navajo Case Study
Significant health inequalities exist between the Navajo tribe and the US population as a whole and are worsening over time. I argue that while these health issues are concerning, there are also larger systemic issues ... -
The Injustice of Giving: Income and Racial Inequality in the United States Loanable Funds Market
The loanable funds market plays an incredibly important role in the lives of almost every American. The mortgages, car leases, business loans, and student loans that generations of Americans have relied on to provide capital ... -
Inner City Youth Sports: An Avenue to Hope
Sports can be meaningful and fulfilling activities without strict organization and structure. However, sports take on a new significance when they are offered to impressionable children in conjunction with academic programs. ... -
The Innocent Casualties of Imprisonment
The purpose of this paper is to examine the negative experiences children have when their parent goes to prison while comparing how these negative experiences differ based on socioeconomic status. . . . Our research ... -
Insights into the Factors Controlling the Distributions of the Narrow Endemic, Helenium virginicum and its Widespread Congener, H. autumnale, Through a Study of Their Relative Competitive Abilities and Growth Rates
We undertook a growth and competition study of H. autumnale and H. virginicum to gain insight into the causes of their distributions. We used a multiple de Wit replacement series to study competition, run concurrently with ...