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In Defense of Head Start
(2011)
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 ...
Hugo Chávez's Anti-Poverty Legacy: A Complicated Case
(2013)
This paper aims to assess the positive and negative legacies of Chávez’s anti-poverty policies and their future in a nation on the brink of resource exhaustion and political deterioration. It will first provide a review ...
Socioeconomic and Geographical Inequalities in Mental Health Combining Social and Health Sector Perspectives
(2011)
Through personal observations and discussion with both practitioners and administrators, I developed an informed perspective on many of the issues that exist at the intersection of poverty and mental health. At the conclusion ...
IMF Conditionality and the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the Poor in Developing Countries
(2008)
The policies that countries agree to follow as a condition for borrowing from the IMF have a profound impact on economic and social rights safeguarded by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ...
Analyzing the Underclass: American Values, Normative Functions, and Implications for Research and Policy
(2005)
Values, norms, morals, and ideologies impact nearly every aspect of American life. Importantly, the established, hegemonic principles that actively shape our perceptions of the world around us also inform our actions and ...
The Unrealized Promise of Goldberg v. Kelly
(2005)
Goldberg v. Kelly was an important case for welfare rights lawyers. It unquestionably gave them something to cheer about because it ensured that people like John Kelly could not lose their welfare benefits because of a ...
Assets and Liberty: Encouraging Healthy Savings Habits for Low-Income Households
(2013)
Our current welfare system places too much of an emphasis on income and consumption over wealth and assets. The United States has a long history of encouraging asset accumulation for all classes. We also have a long tradition ...
The Implications of Welfare Reform for Victims of Domestic Violence
(2005)
I begin with an overview of domestic violence in society as a whole and its connection with welfare. I will examine recent welfare policy, specifically TANF, and explain the ramifications it has had and continues to have ...
Race and Welfare: The Unspoken Variable
(2003)
In order to analyze racial discrimination in the distribution of government welfare benefits, one must establish whether or not such problems exists, whether and how they may be documented, whether the problem is isolated ...
Social Service Vouchers: Eliminating Poverty by Including Sectarians in a Constitutional Manner
(2003)
In the first section of the paper I will begin by describing the state of welfare at the end of the old system, then I will discuss the changes that were made to the system, and then I will discuss the system as it is set ...