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Getting Kicked When You Are Down: The Criminal Law and the Homeless in the United States
In recent years, both local and federal efforts to solve the homelessness epidemic have concentrated on criminalizing the chronic population, currently about 84,000 nationwide.
In this paper I intend to examine how this ...
Oral Health Disparities: A Gradient Remedied Through Educational Programs
Dental health in the context of larger health in the United States is a vital area of research as it has a direct impact on overall health, equality of opportunity in the work force, and generational dental health. This ...
Small-Scale Fisheries and the Global Fisheries Crisis: A Capabilities Approach
Considering the threat of environmental degradation to fisher livelihoods and wellbeing, this paper focuses on the following questions: 1) How should the wellbeing of small-scale fisherfolk, as derived from their livelihoods ...
POVERTY SLAM! How Slam Poetry Transforms the Lives of Impoverished Youth
This paper will discuss slam poetry's impact on impoverished youth by looking at the format and history of slam, slam's connection to poverty, and why slam makes such a connection to impoverished youth. The most important ...
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 ...
CASA Parent Resource Guidebook for Rockbridge County
This is meant to serve as a community guidebook on resources in the Lexington, Rockbridge County,and Buena Vista area, with information on how to access resources pertaining to health, transportation, childcare, food, ...
An Unlikely Opposition: Examining Political Threats to the American Welfare State
. . . the paper opens with a consideration of the harms of a political trend hostile to government social spending. Based on evidence from the current U.S. model as well as European welfare states, I assume that government ...
Debtors' Prison: Virginia's Poor Source for Funding Appointed Counsel
Virginia statute provides for “repayment of representation costs by convicted persons” as part of the cost of prosecution, which is typically assessed by the court as part of sentencing. Payment of these costs is one of ...
Justice for Noncitizens: A Case for Reforming the Immigration Legal System
To the surprise of many, the immigration legal system exists as a function of the executive branch rather than the judicial, and many of the Constitutional rights guaranteed in a judicial court do not continue into the ...
Sick in Suburbia: How the Suburbanization of Poverty Has Created Disparities in Access to Primary Care Among the Metropolitan Poor
Poverty has been suburbanizing since the 1990's in the United States. This metropolitan trend has created disparities in access to primary care between the urban and suburban poor, introducing additional barriers to access ...