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Why Should America Support the Earned Income Tax Credit?
The purpose of this paper is first and foremost to bring more attention to the Earned Income Tax Credit and to respond to growing arguments against it. First, I will explain the arguments and attacks. Then, I will explain ...
Partiality as Justice: a Critique of Thomas Pogge's World Poverty and Human Rights
. . . I find the priority and emphasis Pogge gives to negative obligations in formulating our moral obligation to alleviate poverty to be troubling. In Pogge's work, positive obligations based on justice can only arise ...
A Case for the Universal Basic Income
The current system of distribution in the United States is unjust and degrading. The wealthy have not merited their incomes and the poor are not deserving of their situations. People, especially the poor, do not have the ...
City on the Brink: Economic and Community Development in Camden, NJ
Today people know Camden, NJ as one of the poorest and most dangerous cities in America. It has a population of 80,000 people with an unemployment rate of 10.1% and for those over the age of 25 only 50% graduated from high ...
The High School Dropout Crisis
Over the past 4 decades, the U.S. economy has transformed into a globally competitive market which places a premium on knowledge and education, where the high school diploma is now “an increasingly important prerequisite ...
The Over Representation of Disabilities in Disadvantaged Communities and the Corresponding Effects on Resilience
The State of Learning Disabilities, 2009 stated that -- "Families below the poverty line reported that 4.1% of their children (ages 6-17) have learning disabilities. For families that were not poor, that figure was 2.7%. ...
Selected U.S. Tax Expenditures: Historical Trends in Regressivity
U.S. tax expenditures represent $1.2 trillion dollars of lost federal tax revenues in 2013 due to exclusions, deductions, deferrals, and credits allowed by the tax code. Without tax expenditures, the US government would ...
Holistic Approaches to Early Childhood Education as Seen in The Perry Preschool, The Carolina Abecedarian Project, The Chicago Child Parent Centers, and Head Start
Simple educational preschool programs are often not enough to compensate for the negative aspects of poverty. Evidence from “compensatory and regular preschool programs generally indicates weak and inconsistent effects on ...
Homelessness in Dublin
The question and focus of this project is very much on why there is a large and pervasive problem of homelessness in Dublin. It will also focus on the ethical dimensions present and asking how should the situation be ...
Representations of Poor Whites in the Works of William Faulkner
This essay examines representations of the rural poor in the novel As I Lay Dying and the short story "Barn Burning." In conjunction with these fictional works, the essay explores the ethnic origins of poor whites and their ...