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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Can Sustainable Housing Development Play A Substantial Role in Mitigating Poverty: A Case Study of the Ten 50 B Project
First, this paper will focus on the environmental and housing challenges faced by those who live in poverty. Included in the discussion are challenges that are faced disproportionately by the poor and the effect on their ... -
Can Universal Insurance Ensure Access to Healthcare?
. . . providing health insurance does not ensure equitable access to care. Moreover, all health insurance programs are not alike and the minimal packages may not suffice. There are several types of access problems, including ... -
CASA Parent Resource Guidebook for Rockbridge County
This is meant to serve as a community guidebook on resources in the Lexington, Rockbridge County,and Buena Vista area, with information on how to access resources pertaining to health, transportation, childcare, food, ... -
The Case for a Culturally Appropriate Empowerment-Based Measurement Tool for Social Businesses
Anti-poverty social businesses which aim to assist disadvantaged groups by offering them employment opportunities emerged as a better alternative to classical top-down international development programs. While their main ... -
The Case for Low-Income Women's Access to Reproductive Health Care
Regardless of conservative lawmakers' moral and religious justifications, American society cannot afford to restrict low-income women's independence, economic opportunity, health, and ability to plan for pregnancy by ... -
A Case for the Universal Basic Income
The current system of distribution in the United States is unjust and degrading. The wealthy have not merited their incomes and the poor are not deserving of their situations. People, especially the poor, do not have the ... -
Changing Neighborhoods to Increase Educational Opportunity
Relocation programs improve the environment and opportunities of low income families, but fail to revitalize inner city, poor neighborhoods (policy option 2). In essence, mobilization efforts cause ancillary risks. In all ... -
Charter Schools: A Response to the Achievement Gaps
The racial and SES-based student achievement gaps that plague United States public school children have devastating effects on post-secondary opportunities and success of low-income and minority students. . . . Because ... -
Chicago Housing: The Players, Problems and Solutions
While relocation programs appear to solve problems of crime and violence, they often relocate many against their will, placing them in unfamiliar communities that may be no safer than the ones from which the residents came. ... -
Childhood Exposure to Domestic Violence and the Legal System: Moving Towards Statutory Reform
Through this analysis, I seek to examine past and current efforts at statutory reform that characterize children's exposure to domestic violence as a form of child abuse or neglect. This may take the form of expanding a ... -
Children of Unwed Teen Mothers: Reasons, Outcomes and Solutions
Most studies conclude that children of single parents are at a disadvantage. . . . This paper looks in particular at the most disadvantaged demographic in this subset: teenage never-married mothers. I am focusing on this ... -
Chinese Economic Reform and the Growth of Inequality
This paper examines the effects of Chinese economic reforms on poverty: first, by considering the net reduction of poverty as measure by the $1/day measure; second, by analyzing the trend toward income disparity. Income ... -
CHIP: Virginia's Approach to Child Health Care
This paper explores the foundation and importance of CHIP [Comprehensive Health Investment Project] and evaluates it in terms of its cost and benefits. CHIP provides many services beyond what is already being provided by ... -
[Christian Answers to the Challenges and Problems of Poverty]
. . . it neglects the important fact that the majority of the world's Anglicans live in poverty. Indeed, "if there is such a person as an 'average Anglican' today, she would be 22 years old, live in sub-Saharan Africa, and ... -
Chronic Stress as a Mediator for the Relationship Between Low-Socioeconomic Status and Poor Health Outcomes
The state of American health is alarming. How do we spend so much money even though a large number of us are in poor health and lack access to proper care? My paper will examine the root of this problem. It is important ... -
Chronic Stress: How the Boys and Girls Club of America Can "Be Great" in the Promotion of Mental Health
I will introduce you to the Boys and Girls Club of America (BGCA), explaining why it is a particularly robust venue for improving the lives of its beneficiaries. I will detail for you precisely what is happening to the ... -
Cigarette Taxes: Sin Taxes or Sinful Taxes?
This paper is divided into two main parts. Section I examines the arguments supporting and opposing new cigarette taxes. Subsections include subsection I, the history of cigarette tax; subsection II, the rationales of ... -
Citizens United v. FEC, Freedom of Speech, and the Community Economic Development Movement
The United States Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 130 S.Ct. 876 (2009) caused controversy among commentators, but the practical fallout from the decision remains unclear. In a 5-4 ... -
City on the Brink: Economic and Community Development in Camden, NJ
Today people know Camden, NJ as one of the poorest and most dangerous cities in America. It has a population of 80,000 people with an unemployment rate of 10.1% and for those over the age of 25 only 50% graduated from high ... -
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 ...