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    Social Entrepreneurship: Social Businesses in the Fight to Alleviate Poverty 

    DePlautt, Elizabeth K.
    This brings us to the main question: how can social businesses best help in alleviating poverty? I will argue that the hybrid business model, one that combines aspects of both for-profit and nonprofit in their organizational ...
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    Present Situation, Problems, and Policy Solutions Concerning the State of Teacher Quality in Low-Income, Rural West Virginia 

    Morris, Jill
    Since 40.6% of West Virginia schools are rural and 43.5% of the state's students attend these rural schools, it becomes incredibly important to scrutinize the functioning of the education system outside of the state's more ...
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    Efficacy of Aid in Africa: Why it has Failed and How it can be Fixed 

    Matthai, Alice Gwathmey
    Amani Children's Village serves as an example of the flaws in the charitable aid system in which money flows directly to an organization through donations in the classic NGO format. The difficulties seen in terms of Amani, ...
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    A Spectacular Minority: Charter Schools that Respond to the Problem of Poverty in Public Education 

    Kingsbury, Katie
    There are two important questions to keep in mind throughout this paper. The first of these is how "success" ought to be defined. Is it college entrance and graduation? Is it a certain type or level of occupation; that is, ...
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    Employment Barriers Facing Women of Color Upon Re-Entry from Incarceration 

    Sewell, Shellie L.
    This paper will explore the plight of low-income women of color reentering society from incarceration and the barriers that they face. By looking at the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act ...
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    The Strained Case for the Work Opportunity Tax Credit Anitdote to the Problems of the Hard to Employ 

    Davidson, Tiffany S.
    This paper focuses on the WOTC [Work Opportunity Tax Credit] and argues that a harder look should be taken to assess the value of continued requthorization of the WOTC. Legislators should not look at only the tax credit's ...
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    The Invisible Problem: Malnutrition in the U.S. and its Cognitive, Physical, and Psychosocial Effects in the Critical Developmental Years 

    Shih, Alice
    Malnutrition in the United States has been denied and overshadowed by international malnutrition. However, it is time for our nation to face the effects of malnutrition within our borders before we forsake and condemn ...
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    Transient Children in the Education System 

    McFarland, Katherine
    Transient children confront many disadvantages, and the reverberating effects influence all areas of their life. With higher levels of disease, more emotional disturbances, unstable and often inadequate living conditions, ...
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    Community Economic Development Movements in Rural Ghana Using Agricultural Technologies to Alleviate Poverty 

    Gorman, Elizabeth
    The first section of this paper outlines Ghana's rich economic, political, and social history, paying special attention to social capital, an informal institution that largely determines the effectiveness of CD implementation. ...
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    The University and the Living Wage: How Higher Education Institutions Can Meet the Needs of Its Employees 

    Lollie, Summer
    In her paper "Universities and a Living Wage: Much More than a Minimum Wage," Joan Oguntimein sought to define and discuss the resources that constitute a living wage, and discuss how Harvard University, University of ...
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