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Narrowing the Achievement Gap in High Schools
On one hand, the education gap is a predictor of unimpressive future market and non-market outcomes. On the other hand, low-income and minority citizens are more likely to fall behind their wealthier peers. This creates a ...
The Importance of Information and Communications Technology in Reducing Poverty
ICT investments can reduce poverty by increasing not only economic development, but by also increasing other aspects of development such as political inclusion, freedom of speech, and gender equality. While investments in ...
PRWORA 115: The Devastating Impact of a Little-Known Provision
Six years ago, Congress enacted the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 and dismantled a sixty-year old social welfare program. Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was replaced with Temporary ...
Underutilization of Preventive Diabetes Care Among the Poor: Barriers and Consequences
This paper focuses on type 2 diabetes amongst low-income individuals and families and their underutilization of preventive diabetes care, which includes both measures to prevent diabetes and to prevent a diagnosed individual ...
Access, the Best Birth Control: An Issue of Justice
Low-income women face barriers when trying to access family planning services. Notable barriers to accessing family planning services include financial constraints, transportation difficulties, and lack of family planning ...
Human Capital or Human Capability: Basic Education from a Capability Perspective
This paper explores why access to quality basic education should remain an investment priority in the development field by comparing the human capital and human capability approach to education. Based on the analysis, the ...
Storytelling: How Narrative Identity Can Reduce the Experience of Poverty through Psychological Well-Being
Narrative identity therapy interventions are proven to be effective forms of psychotherapy as they enhance psychological well-being. Narrative therapy enhances psychological well-being by creating coherence and agency in ...
Childhood Exposure to Domestic Violence and the Legal System: Moving Towards Statutory Reform
Through this analysis, I seek to examine past and current efforts at statutory reform that characterize children's exposure to domestic violence as a form of child abuse or neglect. This may take the form of expanding a ...
Setting the Precedent: NYC Education Reforms 2002-2007
This paper examines the process of reform in NYC, over the past five years, to determine whether the reforms have adequately addressed the problems within the NYC school system. The paper begins by examining the conditions ...
Our Moral Obligation to the Poor: Freedom, Justice, and Duty
My research draws upon varying philosophies and moral systems that have significant implications for our duties to both the domestic and the global poor. This methodology resembles that of Thomas Pogge in World Poverty and ...