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Jails Have Become the Poor Person's Mental Hospital: The Intersection Between Drug Use and Mental Illness
Most countries have laws criminalizing drug use and the United States is no exception. Because of the social costs of drug abuse, legislation aimed at deterring drug use through criminal sanctions may be appropriate on ...
Strengthening the Detroit Economy While Addressing Injustice in Low-Income Neighborhoods Through High-Impact Entrepreneurship
All stakeholders in Detroit have a collective responsibility to reduce injustice in low-income neighborhoods. However, this paper uses a social responsibility framework to argue for the responsibility of high-impact firms ...
The Stigmatization of Substance Use in U.S. Healthcare
DRUGS. The word evokes a broad array of mental images: pills, syringes, controlled substances, abuse, treatment, professionals, science, and crime. It is almost impossible for people living in the United States to go their ...
The Impacts of Gentrification on the San Francisco Bay Area
The purpose of this paper is to offer an explanation of the causes and effects of gentrification. First, I will use formal economic models of the markets for both high-end and affordable housing to predict the series of ...
The Effect of NSLP Participation on Health Outcomes
In this paper, I argue for the moral obligation of instituting a school lunch program with high nutritional standards using a bioethical framework, and I evaluate the new NSLP's [National School Lunch Program's] effectiveness ...
It's Not (All) About the Money: Why and How Selective Schools Can Better Support Low-Income Students
At selective colleges and universities, access is not the only discussion that needs to happen with regard to low-income students. Selective schools also need to focus on low-income student retention after enrollment, ...
Health Inequality in the Andes: An Ethnicity-Centered Approach
In summary, there exists a significant body of work on health inequalities in the Andes. However, much of this literature provides somewhat fragmented pieces of a complex whole with respect to the production of health ...
Knowledge is Power: School-Based Nutrition Education and Childhood Obesity
The obesity epidemic is a growing problem. Adolescent and childhood obesity is compounding the already high obesity rates in the United States. If something is not done, almost all adults in the U.S. could be overweight ...
Examining Opportunity Zones by Looking at Enterprise Zones of the Past
The use of tax breaks to improve regions has an interesting and elaborate history. This paper goes through the creation of the concept, its past in America and the new national additions of opportunity zones in nine parts. ...
Investing in Our Future: The Argument for Early Childhood Intervention
While the need for quality early childhood interventions is clear, questions remain surrounding the strategies of intervention including age, outcomes, and effectiveness. This paper will review the Yale Child Welfare ...