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Reducing Hospital Readmissions for Vulnerable Patient Populations: Policy Concerns and Interventions
Hospital readmissions present a significant financial burden to Medicare payment systems and indicate poor health outcomes for patients following hospitalization. The Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) ...
The Strained Case for the Work Opportunity Tax Credit Anitdote to the Problems of the Hard to Employ
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 ...
The Lines That Define Us: Racial Residential Segregation and Health Disparities for African Americans
This capstone explored the mechanisms underlying the relationship between racial residential segregation and health disparities for African Americans. This relationship was examined through the analysis of how racial ...
The Invisible Problem: Malnutrition in the U.S. and its Cognitive, Physical, and Psychosocial Effects in the Critical Developmental Years
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 ...
Transient Children in the Education System
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, ...
The University and the Living Wage: How Higher Education Institutions Can Meet the Needs of Its Employees
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 ...
The Effectiveness of Early Intervention Programs
Early education programs are the most promising measure to invest in America's schools. It is a method by which the cycle of poverty can be stopped before the detrimental educational, mental, and social effects of living ...
Equity & The Discount Rate in Climate Change Economics
The focus of this research seeks to determine the best practices in determining climate change mitigation policies, and will focus on the role of the discount rate. A robust debate surrounding the practice of discounting ...
Protestants and the Poor: How Religiosity Affects Support for Social Welfare Policy
This article first examines the question: Does degree of religiosity affect support for social welfare policy among Protestants and Catholics, and does this effect change over time? I
first review various theoretical ...
Community Empowerment: Mural Arts Philadelphia's Community Muralism Process and Product
This paper examines community muralism as an instance of community empowerment, specifically through a case study of Philadelphia's mural program. The program is called Mural Arts Philadelphia (MAP) and was founded in 1984 ...