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Presentation and Perception: The Effect of Disclosure Readability on Lending Decisions (thesis)
This paper examines the effect readability has on the perceived creditworthiness of borrowers. I find that reduced readability increases the likelihood that borrowers objectively deserving of an unfavorable credit rating ...
Creating Locational Equilibriums: The Potential Role of Publicly Funded Housing as a Foundation for Equality of Opportunity for Impoverished Children
Public Housing Projects in the United States have not been built on a large scale since 1981. The idea of building new, government funded, low income housing units is not particularly popular due to the previous historical ...
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 ...
The Impoverishment of Forced Migration: The Sudanese Crisis
Migration caused by conflict is a huge yet often under-recognised problem in the world today. Sudan is an area which has some of the highest numbers of displaced persons in the world today, caused by a bloody, long-standing ...
In Defense of Head Start
Despite heavy criticism and scrutiny, Head Start remains as the most important education and anti-poverty programs for preschool aged children. The program works create better childcare and home environments for three to ...
The Making of a Modern Saint: An Analysis of Grief, Charisma, and Community Identity in Transition (thesis)
In concluding this research, I will briefly recount the analytical progress that has been made. Such concluding remarks reaffirm the theoretical model. Primarily, however, my conclusion will engage with this very idea of ...
Disrupting the White Man's Game: Violence, Hegemonic Masculinity, and an American Pastime
In this paper, I address how womxn, LGBTQ individuals, persons of color, and non-Americans are simultaneously conceptualized or represented within and excluded from the white, hyper-masculine, ultra-nationalist realm of ...
Looking to the Developing World for Anti-Poverty Strategies: The Conditional Cash Transfer Plan in New York City
Mayor Bloomberg's decision to appropriate an anti-poverty strategy from the developing world demonstrates his administration's clear determination to attack the dual problems of youth disconnection and poverty in an ...