Mobile telecommunications or mobile telephony is the enormous network of telephone services for portable phones, ranging from smartphones with monthly subscriptions and full Internet capabilities to pre-paid low-end phones ...

Even after the recent recession, and despite a high unemployment rate, there are labor markets in which employers struggle to fill positions (Coffey 2011). In 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projected that “nearly one ...

First, I offer a brief history and background of each group, providing the reasons for their boundedness in the first place, a taste of their culture, and their origins as a group as we see them today. Second, I compare ...

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 ...

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 ...

Health is the accumulation of the past and a hard life manifests itself in poor health. The link between poverty and health is a highly complex issue and there is no silver bullet to address the problem. However there are ...

In the course of this paper I will expand on the moral obligation of enhancing social capital as a means of addressing poverty, examine the resources of social networks that can build social capital and help reduce poverty, ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or ACA), passed on March 23, 2010, is the most comprehensive U.S. healthcare reform legislature enacted since the passage of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965. The overarching ...

Hukou is a household registration system that categorizes every citizen as “agricultural (rural)” or “non-agricultural (urban)” and bans the movement into different regions (Meng, 2012). Although its restriction on migration ...

Students in rural high schools are routinely underperforming when compared to urban and suburban students. Dual enrollment programs, which allow high school students to simultaneously earn postsecondary credit, has been ...