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Immigrant Access to Justice: Implications in Real Human Lives
This paper is divided into eight sections. I begin with a discussion of existing literature on the sociocultural factors which produce migrant women's disproportionate vulnerability. I then introduce three moral frameworks ... -
Immigrants and Health Care
This paper seeks to investigate health care related issues for immigrants in the United States, but in particular for the undocumented immigrant population, with a focus on Hispanic immigrants. Because of the inherent ... -
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 ... -
Impact of Transportation Barriers and Stigmas on the Labor Force Participation of Women in Urban Cities in India
The three important aspects of an ethical framework that promoting human dignity are well-being, liberty, and equality (Pickett, 2022). All three of these are important for a person to live a life if dignity and happiness. ... -
The Impacts of Gentrification on the San Francisco Bay Area
The purpose of this paper is to offer an explanation of the causes and effects of gentrification. First, I will use formal economic models of the markets for both high-end and affordable housing to predict the series of ... -
Implications of U.S. Sugar and Dairy Income Support Programs for Poverty in the United States, Costa Rica and Jamaica
Given the popular rhetoric about the effects of subsidies and the frequent agitation on behalf of farmers in relatively poor developing countries, this study aims to investigate the actual effects of U.S. sugar and dairy ... -
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 ... -
The Importance of Information and Communications Technology in Reducing Poverty
ICT investments can reduce poverty by increasing not only economic development, but by also increasing other aspects of development such as political inclusion, freedom of speech, and gender equality. While investments in ... -
The Impoverishment of Forced Migration: The Sudanese Crisis
Migration caused by conflict is a huge yet often under-recognised problem in the world today. Sudan is an area which has some of the highest numbers of displaced persons in the world today, caused by a bloody, long-standing ... -
In Defense of Head Start
Despite heavy criticism and scrutiny, Head Start remains as the most important education and anti-poverty programs for preschool aged children. The program works create better childcare and home environments for three to ... -
In the Public or Private Interest? Rethinking the Role of the Legal Aid Lawyer
This essay attempts to examine a theoretical question from a practical standpoint: is it possible, or even desirable, for the legal aid lawyer to pursue a greater mission -- and if so, what should that mission be? It is ... -
Inaccessible Unemployment Insurance: The Unsupported Reality of Low-Income Single Mothers
In 1998, single mother headed 25 percent of all families with children in the United States. In the six year span between 1993 and 1999, the families maintained by working single mothers jumped from 6.4 to 7.6 million, ... -
Inadequate Workforce Skillset as a Corrosive Disadvantage: Enhancing Marketable Skills to Combat Housing and Homelessness Issues
This paper explores three key themes in addressing the housing and homelessness paradigm: resource distribution, deservingness, and quality of housing. Firstly, on resource distribution, should housing programs maximally ... -
Incarcerated Juveniles in America: Rehabilitation from the Family or the State?
Academia and the government both recognize the importance of the family for incarcerated juveniles. Through an examination of the related publications on the juvenile justice system as well as a youth's need for family, ... -
The Incarceration Addiction: A Toxic, Symbiotic Relationship and an Ethical Response
This paper examines the interlocking factors in the toxic, symbiotic relationship between addiction and incarceration. It begins by discussing the “War on Drugs” that heralded the globally unprecedented swelling of the ... -
Incarceration and Creative Expression: Why Prisons Should Increase Access to Art Materials for Incarcerated People
Understanding and conveying ideas about ourselves is something that makes us fundamentally human. Our identities are defined by the "cooperatively authored world" in which we live: the stories that we share and the people ... -
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 ... -
Income Inequality in America: How Politics and Policy Have Failed the American Poor
The fight against inequality in America will need to be founded upon five major reforms. These reforms include campaign finance reform, publicly funded outreach campaigns to the poor, more redistributive tax policy, more ... -
Indigent Defense in Virginia: Practical and Empathic Motivations for Reform
In 1999 an estimated $1.2 billion was spent to provide indigent criminal defense in the nation's 100 most populous counties. This $1.2 billion represents an estimated 3% of all local criminal justice expenditures in these ... -
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 ...