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Our Moral Obligation to the Poor: Freedom, Justice, and Duty
My research draws upon varying philosophies and moral systems that have significant implications for our duties to both the domestic and the global poor. This methodology resembles that of Thomas Pogge in World Poverty and ...
Fair Opportunity in Affordable Housing: How the Judicial Remedy in Gautreaux Informed Antipoverty Policy
We should be particularly concerned with relative deprivation in fair housing—the differences between the ghetto and the suburbs—because relativity shows us how inequalities prevent full participation in society.13 According ...
Complexity, Regressivity, and Income Disparity: Self-defeating Aspects of the Earned Income Tax Credit
Unfortunately, the EITC [Earned Income Tax Credit] has failed to live up to its promise. The complexity inherent in the current version of the Credit has, to a certain extent, actually decreased true progressivity in ...
Reproductive Health Care: The Role of Medicaid
Through my research, I found that Medicaid's coverage throughout time has expanded and contracted, placing different emphasis on different aspects of reproductive health care. However, reproductive health care ethics ...
No Child Left Behind and the Achievement Gap: Disadvantaged Students Are No Better Off Than Before. Now What?
It is clear that students are entering school with gaps, but from factors that are somewhat malleable. There is a potential for recovery from coming in with gaps, particularly related to health and nutrition. Tanner et al ...
Menstrual Mismanagement: An Economic Synthesis of Period Poverty and its Overlapping Facets in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Existing literature splits experiences of menstrual poverty across hardware and software deprivation lines. . . . This paper will focus on both facets of period poverty specifically in low- and middle-income countries. ...
Summer Programs for Children in Appalachia
The Appalachian region receives little national attention or funds to alleviate its rampant poverty. Rawls's concept of fair equality of opportunity should be the goal of programs that work to alleviate poverty. Christian ...
Released But Not Freed: The Impact of Incarceration on Post-Release Employment
This paper focuses on the disparate access to the labor market for incarcerated males of low socioeconomic status, as this is the overwhelming majority of the prison population. The very presence of incarceration, compounded ...
Oral Health Disparities: A Gradient Remedied Through Educational Programs
Dental health in the context of larger health in the United States is a vital area of research as it has a direct impact on overall health, equality of opportunity in the work force, and generational dental health. This ...
POVERTY SLAM! How Slam Poetry Transforms the Lives of Impoverished Youth
This paper will discuss slam poetry's impact on impoverished youth by looking at the format and history of slam, slam's connection to poverty, and why slam makes such a connection to impoverished youth. The most important ...