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Home is where the heart is: The Role of Voluntary Home Visitation Programs in Ensuring Fair Equality of Opportunity for Families
Children from low-income families come to the first day of kindergarten developmentally behind. While education policy has worked to mitigate this disparity, early education programs are not enough to promote true equality ...
Stop Punishing the Victim: Decriminalization as an Alternative to Legalizing Prostitution
This paper discusses why legalizing prostitution is not the best approach to protecting prostitutes, specifically the poorest ones who enter prostitution only when faced with no other options. Decriminalization of selling ...
Linking Poverty to Health Outcomes: Alcohol Abuse in Chronically Poor Rural Areas
In this paper, I will examine the impact of alcohol abuse among the poor in rural areas, using personal experiences from a summer in Phillips County, Arkansas as an illustrative case for how society should view the effects ...
International Measurements of Womens Poverty and Capability Approach
This paper attempts to evaluate international poverty measurements using the capability approach developed by Nobel Prize winning economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. Capabilities measurements of poverty are better suited ...
Inclusion in Privilege: Increasing Emphasis on Savings to Promote Capabilities for All
Defining poverty as lowness of income dominates anti-poverty efforts in America and averts attention away from schemes that promote capabilities that cumulate to build a minimally dignified life. Meanwhile, the emphasis ...
Addressing Migrant Children's Education in the United States
Although the U.S. has prioritized universal education to all residents, only ten percent of migrant students graduate from high school. This paper explores specific barriers migrant farmworkers' children face to educational ...
Chronic Stress: How the Boys and Girls Club of America Can "Be Great" in the Promotion of Mental Health
I will introduce you to the Boys and Girls Club of America (BGCA), explaining why it is a particularly robust venue for improving the lives of its beneficiaries. I will detail for you precisely what is happening to the ...
Bound: How Elimination of Forced Labor Will Reduce Poverty
In Part I, this paper will illustrate the presence of forced labor in the U.S. and globally. Part II will introduce current laws and mechanisms in place for fighting forced labor, and examine their efficacy, or lack thereof, ...
Socioeconomic and Geographical Inequalities in Mental Health Combining Social and Health Sector Perspectives
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 ...
The Jurisprudence and Impact of Affirmative Action
For decades the debate over affirmative action has been hard fought across the United States. From courtrooms and chatrooms to legislative halls to college halls people have fought over whether race, class, or other ...