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Straight Teeth and Crooked Policies: Why Dental Care Matters for Anti-Poverty Efforts
Oral health is largely treated as a luxury in the United States. This sentiment is echoed by our nation's current health care legislature, and evident by growing dental disparities despite advanced technology and increased ...
The Case for a Culturally Appropriate Empowerment-Based Measurement Tool for Social Businesses
Anti-poverty social businesses which aim to assist disadvantaged groups by offering them employment opportunities emerged as a better alternative to classical top-down international development programs. While their main ...
Mental Health and Medicaid
Medicaid covers 15 million adults representing 25% of all Medicaid recipients and 5% of America's population (KFF). The effects of poverty make Medicaid recipients significantly more likely to suffer from mental illness. ...
Who Is Poor? Poverty in the United States Re-examined from a Multidimensional Perspective
Poverty is a long-established economic outcome worthy of scholarly and political concern. The issue of addressing poverty deals primarily with identification: who is poor? This paper constructs a Multidimensional Poverty ...
Corporate Social Responsibility as a Tool for Poverty Alleviation
The purpose of this paper is to argue that there is tremendous potential through CSR (corporate social responsibility) to improve the relations between the private and public spheres of society. It is from the actions of ...
Equal Opportunity and the Elderly
America currently fails to provide total health to its elderly population. America provides the elderly with vital, albeit modest financial, assistance through Social Security and Medicare, but makes little provision for ...
Employment Capability for Individuals with Barriers to Labor Market Entry: The Case of Work-Integration Social Enterprises
In this paper, I will begin by defining social entrepreneurship and giving a brief overview of the rise of the field, both for the sake of clarity and for the relative novelty of the concept. The following section will ...
How Can We Provide Access to Family Planning Services in a Culturally Respectful and Ethical Manner in Developing Countries? A Ugandan Case Study
Uganda has the fifth highest fertility rate in the world, and one of the lowest family planning usage rates. While many governments and NGOs measure only physical and economic factors when assessing if a family planning ...
Food Freedom: Combatting Paternalism in SNAP
The purpose of this paper was to state the case that we ought not to restrict sugar-sweetened beverages from SNAP because it would be ineffective, stigmatizing, paternalistic, and would violate human capabilities. Moving ...
Assessing Philosophical Approaches to Combating International Poverty
This paper will examine several philosophical approaches to poverty, and attempt to find the one among them that will be most effective in the fight against international poverty. The four major approaches that will be ...