Browsing W&L Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability by Title
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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 ... -
Understanding Summer Learning Loss: Why low-income children need effective summer programming
The evidence presented in this paper clearly defines the magnitude of summer learning loss, and hypothesizes how family, parent, and home-life characteristics can play a major role in students' summer learning loss. Though ... -
Understanding the Prevalence of Mental Health Disorders in Rockbridge Area and the Need for Health Reform
. . . This report identifies the impediments to mental health care in the Rockbridge Area, the scope of mental health illness prevalence within the community, the programs established to combat these issues, and it ultimately ... -
Understanding the Role of Accounting and Finance Skillsets in Social Impact Work
Throughout this research, we have seen that accounting and poverty studies have the potential to garner a much stronger academic association. By studying non-profits, we can see how significant of a need there is for more ... -
Underutilization of Preventive Diabetes Care Among the Poor: Barriers and Consequences
This paper focuses on type 2 diabetes amongst low-income individuals and families and their underutilization of preventive diabetes care, which includes both measures to prevent diabetes and to prevent a diagnosed individual ... -
The Unexamined Link: Type II Diabetes and Poverty
. . . diabetes is considered to be the nation's fastest growing health problem. The impact is largely on those of low socioeconomic status (SES), who have less access to resources and healthcare. . . . Unfortunately, the ... -
Universal Primary Education in Nigeria and Uganda: Restore the Teaching Profession, Restore Democracy
If they [Nigeria and Uganda] are unable to provide quality education to go along with the universal access to primary education, their systems of education will fail and larger notions of participation and national ... -
Universities and a Living Wage: Much More than a Minimum Wage
This paper will examine these living wage campaigns and consider how universities, along with government can provide a living wage for all university workers. The first section of this paper will define a living wage and ... -
The University and the Living Wage: How Higher Education Institutions Can Meet the Needs of Its Employees
In her paper "Universities and a Living Wage: Much More than a Minimum Wage," Joan Oguntimein sought to define and discuss the resources that constitute a living wage, and discuss how Harvard University, University of ... -
An Unlikely Opposition: Examining Political Threats to the American Welfare State
. . . the paper opens with a consideration of the harms of a political trend hostile to government social spending. Based on evidence from the current U.S. model as well as European welfare states, I assume that government ... -
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 ... -
Urban Renewal and Effects on Poverty
Urban renewal policies since the New Deal era have had complicated effects on the outcomes of the American poor. Using Amartya Sen's capability framework, this paper identifies housing as a key resource necessary for ... -
US and Norwegian Healthcare Systems
Healthcare is a subject of profound importance and fierce debate in the United States. It is clear that the system is far from perfect. The United States spends a higher percentage of its GDP on healthcare than any other ... -
Vanishing into Society: The Harsh Reality of Living without an ID
There are millions of Americans like Tony Simmons that become trapped in poverty as they struggle to function in society without an ID. Not having an ID makes it exponentially harder for one to find employment or access ... -
Virginia Community Colleges: The Expanding Role and Low-Income Virginians
The community college system in Virginia has experienced a generation of change. Recently, with the implementation of a statewide guaranteed admission policy, community college has expanded upon the base demographic from ...