Browsing W&L Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability by Subject "Washington and Lee University, Shepherd Poverty Program"
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Do "Delta Dreams" Come True? Community and Individual Development in Phillips County, Arkansas
In general, most residents of low-income neighborhoods are unhappy with the impoverished state of their community and can take one of two modes of action to demonstrate their dissatisfaction: exit or voice (Simon 2001:144). ... -
Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients -- An Examination of Policies and their Implications
Currently, there is a popular sentiment that many people are gaming the welfare system. States are attempting to find out which people who receive welfare are “abusing the system” and remove them from the programs. A popular ... -
Dual Reality: Opioid Use Disorder among Pregnant Women and Their Children
Individuals who experience a problematic pattern of opioid use or dependence suffer from opioid use disorder (OUD) ("Opioid Use Disorder"). The experience of OUD among pregnant women is unjust because it results not only ... -
Early Childhood Homelessness: The Experience and an Ethical Response
Early childhood homelessness is an experience that 2.5 million children are facing in America. To most Americans, the thought of a homeless child arouses empathy and frustration, yet society still has not implemented sound ... -
The Economic Necessity of Social Capital: A Case Study in Phillips County, Arkansas
While much of the debate surrounding poverty issues in the United States focuses on individual initiative and responsibility, the community in which individuals reside also plays an important role in the empowerment of ... -
The Effect of After-School Programs on Low-Income Students
This paper argues for the benefits of educational after-school programs in the lives of low-income students. By providing tutoring, assistance with homework, and recreational activities, these programs can help to improve ... -
The Effect of Malaria on Pregnant Women and Children
Some say, "where countries prosper least, malaria thrives most," -- and given the data on the global distribution of malaria, it is true. Malaria thrives most in tropical and hence wet areas, which consist mostly of ... -
The Effect of NSLP Participation on Health Outcomes
In this paper, I argue for the moral obligation of instituting a school lunch program with high nutritional standards using a bioethical framework, and I evaluate the new NSLP's [National School Lunch Program's] effectiveness ... -
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 ... -
Effects of 1996 on Immigration and Immigrant Policy Reforms on Legal Permanent Residents
Essentially, PRWORA [Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act] promised to decrease welfare spending by $55 billion over five years, limit welfare receipt to two years after which time recipients ... -
Effects of a Transitioning Media on Poverty Coverage
This transition from newspapers to the Internet is transforming coverage and its presentation to the public. . . . In this paper, I am going to explore the effect this transition has had on the coverage of poverty. ... -
The Effects of Corruption on Poverty in the Developing World, Case Studies: Kenya and Botswana
The question for Africa's future is why certain nations have experienced so much success while others have failed. Many are still shackled by the economic suppression of their former masters and by the politics of the ... -
The Effects of Just Land Distribution on Public Health in Latin America
In this paper, I will illustrate how urban and rural land reforms each affect public health. The term "land reform" can take on a multitude of meanings, but for the purposes of this paper I have defined it as the redistribution ... -
Efficacy of Aid in Africa: Why it has Failed and How it can be Fixed
Amani Children's Village serves as an example of the flaws in the charitable aid system in which money flows directly to an organization through donations in the classic NGO format. The difficulties seen in terms of Amani, ... -
Emergency Department Utilization Among the Poor: The Need to Improve Access to Quality Primary Care
Inappropriate use of emergency departments and inadequate access to high-quality primary care are two interrelated issues that characterize health care for America's poor. A thorough rectification of this issue must not ... -
Employment Barriers Facing Women of Color Upon Re-Entry from Incarceration
This paper will explore the plight of low-income women of color reentering society from incarceration and the barriers that they face. By looking at the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act ... -
Employment Capability for Individuals with Barriers to Labor Market Entry: The Case of Work-Integration Social Enterprises
In this paper, I will begin by defining social entrepreneurship and giving a brief overview of the rise of the field, both for the sake of clarity and for the relative novelty of the concept. The following section will ... -
Empowerment and Apartheid's Lingering Legacy: Evaluating the Effectiveness of B-BBEE Policy
This paper evaluates state intervention through South African government policy by assessing the implementation of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Act. First introduced in 2003, this Act has played a ... -
Ending Zero-Tolerace: How High Poverty Schools can Repair and Restore School Discipline
The prevailing school discipline paradigm in the United States is actively racist and systemically robs the fair equality of opportunity from students across the nation. In the past few decades, the highly punitive ... -
[English Language Learners]
In the 1974 landmark case Lau v. Nichols, the Supreme Court ruled that the government has an additional responsibility to assist English-learning students above and beyond expectations for traditional students. For the ...