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Structural Isolation of the Poor in Urban America
In this paper, I explore the reasons for which concentrated poverty is a consequence of the social, political, and market mechanisms at work in urban America. I then highlight the negative effects that result from living ... -
Structured Settlements and the Factoring Industry: Is There Enough Regulation in Place? Or is the Judiciary Unwilling to Step Up to the Plate and Correctly Enforce it?
Analysis of the factoring industry shows that it is an integral industry that complements structured settlements and can provide for the immediate needs of plaintiffs, but it is also clear that regulation of the industry ... -
Stuck on the Streets, But in Hope of a Home: The Long-Term Homeless
One of the most extreme forms of modern-day poverty in the United States, homelessness has been steadily increasing in urban prevalence since the 1970's.1 Although many people admit that homelessness is a problem in many ... -
Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Impact, Causes and Solutions for Low-Income Borrowers
This paper focuses on the subprime mortgage crisis and its relationship to low-income borrowers, families, and neighborhoods. It examines how and why the current crisis developed, the implications to poor families and ... -
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 ... -
Summer Slide: The Need for Summer Intervention for Low Income Elementary School Students
Much of the literature and policies aimed at elementary education focus on making improvements to the calendar school year; however, one of the most important areas of elementary education reform to consider is the loss ... -
Taking Your Religion to Court: Exploring the Conflict Between the Capacity of the Individual to Fully Function Within the Family and the Capacity of the Religious Group to Define Itself
In light of the tension between the individual's rights to equal treatment and to the protections of the civil law and the group's right to determine its rules of life, Professor Shachar concludes that it is possible for ... -
A targeted, regulated expansion of genetic services as means to increase health capabilities in Latin America
Due to the recent health transition from infectious diseases to non-communicable diseases, genetic disorders are now a global public health priority. Genetic disorders have a high prevalence and a high burden of disease ... -
Teachers Unions: A Help or Hindrance in Diminishing Income Achievement Gap
A reform of the seniority rule, teacher tenure, teacher compensation, and working conditions is imperative for recruiting and retaining high quality teachers in high poverty schools. While teachers unions promote a reform ... -
Teaching Students to Talk Real Good: Language, Networks, and Justice
Standard American English (SAE) has emerged as the dominant language in traditional American marketplaces because of the affiliation of SAE with certain social groups. Many students in America, however, grow up in homes ... -
Television News Coverage of the Developing World: A Case Study on America's news coverage on Haiti
The news might not tell us what to think, but it tells us what to think about. Of all mass media, television is the most influential because images carry more influence in shaping public opinion than words. Using Haiti as ... -
"They've all come to look for America": Refugee Resettlement and Employment in the United States
The current system strives to ensure that refugees are economically self-sufficient: that they are able to pay bills when their cash grants run out after the first few months. This goal, which is set by the federal government, ... -
Tiny Home Communities: Alternative Solutions to Addressing Homelessness
Homelessness is decreasing nationally, but populations experiencing homelessness in certain states and unsheltered homelessness both increasing. Also, chronic homelessness still makes up large part of populations experiencing ... -
Transforming East Lake: Theoretical and Structural Underpinnings of a Mixed-Income Development
The story of East Lake has been well told in the popular media and has even been deemed "a miracle." This paper supplements those stories by exploring two components of the Villages of East Lake: first, I review the possible ... -
Transient Children in the Education System
Transient children confront many disadvantages, and the reverberating effects influence all areas of their life. With higher levels of disease, more emotional disturbances, unstable and often inadequate living conditions, ... -
Transit-Oriented Development: On Track or Off the Rails?
In recent years TOD has been viewed by policymakers and various interest groups as a panacea to many problems ranging from obesity to increased transportation access for low-income households. But how likely is TOD to ... -
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] ... -
Troubled Wake Behind a Pretty Boat: The Aftermath of Gideon v. Wainwright
The arguments for ensuring that all people, regardless of income level, receive effective assistance of counsel bear tremendous moral weight. The Supreme Court of the United State recognized as much in its historic ruling ... -
Trust me, I'm a Doctor: Evaluating the Factors that Lead to Social Mistrust in the United States Healthcare System
The United States has a long history of health inequality. . . . The disturbing aspect of this situation is that disparities in health are not exclusively determined by individual choices and actions. Instead, they are ... -
Two Perspectives on Poverty: Thomas Pogge and Bill Gates
Gates and Pogge suggest different “problems of poverty,” different impediments to the severe reduction of poverty, different reasons for fighting poverty, and different solutions for the severe reduction of poverty. In ...