W&L University Student Scholarship: Recent submissions
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Family Formation Among Single Mothers in Jamaica
Teenage pregnancy in Jamaica is a development issue because its effects are felt in every facet of the society. The mother’s ability to care for her child both financially and emotionally is severely limited. The effects ... -
Many Children Left Behind: The Problems with the Promises of Accountability in Education
This paper begins with a brief history of accountability in education law, followed by a closer examination of accountability and its role in NCLBA. The paper then examines some key problems and concerns with the effectiveness ... -
The TRIPS Agreement and the Human Right to Essential Medicines
Of course, patents are not the only, or even the primary, roadblocks to accessible medicine in developing nations. Over one-third of the world's population lacks access to the drugs on the WHO [World Health Organization] ... -
The HIV/AIDS Epidemic and Poverty: A Human Perspective
The three countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Jamaica) bear testamony to the importance of the health system and provided real world examples of how the AIDS epidemic exploits a nation's shortcomings on a variety of ... -
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 Impact of Substance Abuse on Welfare Recipients
This paper explores many complex facets of the impact of substance abuse on welfare recipients. First, the prevalence of drug use among the total population and individuals on welfare are studied. Next, the barriers created ... -
A Path to Depression: The Stigmatization of Poor Single Mothers
Although there are certainly other contributing factors that predispose poor women to depression, the way in which false classist assumptions contribute to depression in poor single mothers has been largely neglected in ... -
Collateral Damage: Unintended Consequences of Urban Renewal in Baltimore, MD
It bears analyzing some of the commonly observed and advertised effects, both positive and negative, of urban renewal in general, and their particular realization in Baltimore. What follows is an analysis of urban renewal's ... -
The Privatization of Social Service Programs
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PWRORA) represented a major shift in the national welfare system. It allows states the option of providing welfare-related services to the ... -
Cracking Down on the Down and Out: The Criminalization of Homelessness
The legislation that this paper examines bars them [homeless persons] from fulfilling basic needs. This paper considers what sorts of legislation criminalizes homelessness, discusses the moral and legal implications of ... -
The Unrealized Promise of Goldberg v. Kelly
Goldberg v. Kelly was an important case for welfare rights lawyers. It unquestionably gave them something to cheer about because it ensured that people like John Kelly could not lose their welfare benefits because of a ... -
The Multi-Dimensional Effects of Poverty on Children With Asthma
Childhood asthma is a complicated disease caused by numerous, interrelated factors. It disproportionately affects minority and impoverished communities in a multidimensional manner, through variances in healthcare, ... -
The Implications of Welfare Reform for Victims of Domestic Violence
I begin with an overview of domestic violence in society as a whole and its connection with welfare. I will examine recent welfare policy, specifically TANF, and explain the ramifications it has had and continues to have ... -
Apartheid Resurrected: How American Incarceration Policies Wage War On Poor African American Communities
Clearly, determinate sentencing policies which are disproportionate in their application, resulting in increased incarceration of a specific minority group, fail to fulfill the objectives of a fair and just criminal justice ... -
Analyzing the Underclass: American Values, Normative Functions, and Implications for Research and Policy
Values, norms, morals, and ideologies impact nearly every aspect of American life. Importantly, the established, hegemonic principles that actively shape our perceptions of the world around us also inform our actions and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Representations of Poor Whites in the Works of William Faulkner
This essay examines representations of the rural poor in the novel As I Lay Dying and the short story "Barn Burning." In conjunction with these fictional works, the essay explores the ethnic origins of poor whites and their ... -
Denying Medical Services to Undocumented Immigrants within the United States: Short-Sighted Policies with Disastrous Consequences
This paper will dispel myths about immigration, which become the reasons for the driving opposition against providing social services to immigrants. In addition, this paper will take a legal and human rights approach. It ... -
Indigents and the Courts: The Failures of Public Defense Systems
The criminal justice system starts with investigation and arrest and can end with life imprisonment or even death. Along the way there are many steps for which having a good attorney can make a significant difference. This ...