Browsing W&L Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability by Title
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Sacrificing the Mentality of Childhood: Poverty's Impact on Children with Mental Illnesses
According to the CDC, up to a fifth of children from all income brackets are thought to suffer from a mental illness ("Child Mental Health"). Low-income children are disproportionately affected with one-third to one-half ... -
"Scared Sick": Poverty And Childhood Trauma Intervention
Childhood trauma, which disrupts brain development, is disproportionately common in poor families. Current interventions focus on two main protective factors, parental attachment and creative expressiveness, which often ... -
Searching for Justice for Juveniles in America: Are There Lessons to be Learned from the United Kingdom?
This paper suggests that if the U.S. continues its existing detention-heavy approach to juvenile justice, it will fall short of its social and criminal justice goals. Instead of deterring youth offenders, adult imprisonment ... -
Searching for Truth and Water: Deconstructing Cochabamba's "Water War"
The water inadequacies of Cochabamba are not unlike the reality of much of the developing world. . . . The key is finding the best way to maximize the right to clean water: making access affordable, environmentally ... -
Sectoral Workforce Development
Even after the recent recession, and despite a high unemployment rate, there are labor markets in which employers struggle to fill positions (Coffey 2011). In 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projected that “nearly one ... -
Selected U.S. Tax Expenditures: Historical Trends in Regressivity
U.S. tax expenditures represent $1.2 trillion dollars of lost federal tax revenues in 2013 due to exclusions, deductions, deferrals, and credits allowed by the tax code. Without tax expenditures, the US government would ... -
Sentencing Disparities of White Collar Crime and Non-White Collar Crime
97% of criminal prosecutions end in a plea deal. Thus, the sentence recorded by the United States Sentencing Commission is most likely a sentence negotiated during a pre-trial agreement. This paper will show that a disparity ... -
Setting the Precedent: NYC Education Reforms 2002-2007
This paper examines the process of reform in NYC, over the past five years, to determine whether the reforms have adequately addressed the problems within the NYC school system. The paper begins by examining the conditions ... -
Sex For Survival: Prostitution, Poverty, and Inequality
For this topic, there has been a significant amount of work directly on prostitution and the accompanying theoretical or moral arguments. My aim is to analyze the different arguments on prostitution policy and select the ... -
Shattered Pasts and Uncertain Futures: Refugee Protection in the 21st Century
The plight of refugees is a significant international concern for many reasons. The sheer number of displaced persons represents disorder and societal disintegration, but more importantly, our responses to this plight ... -
Should Americans Take Steps to Make Higher Education More Affordable for Poor Americans?
The cost of higher education in America has been constantly rising. The high cost is making it very difficult for low-income Americans to pursue a bachelor's degree. The inability for low-income Americans to obtain a degree ... -
Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Recommendations for Short-Term Missions and Volunteering Abroad
This paper will begin with an analysis of the case against short-term service trips abroad . . . Part 1 will break down the case against these trips by dividing it into four distinct claims: a) Short-term term service ... -
Shue and Mencius on the Provision of Subsistence
In this work, I will examine the approaches for the provision of subsistence to those whose subsistence is threatened offered by Henry Shue in Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence and U.S. Foreign Policy (BR) and the ... -
Sick in Suburbia: How the Suburbanization of Poverty Has Created Disparities in Access to Primary Care Among the Metropolitan Poor
Poverty has been suburbanizing since the 1990's in the United States. This metropolitan trend has created disparities in access to primary care between the urban and suburban poor, introducing additional barriers to access ... -
Silenced and Stuck in Squalor: Roma's Right to Fair and Equal Opportunity to Speak
In December of 2010, local authorities evicted 56 Roma families to a dump in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Though nearly seven years have passed since local authorities moved families from the center of the city to the outskirts ... -
Small Businesses, Poverty, and Social Policy: The Effect of the ACA on the Relationship between Small Businesses and Poverty
The Affordable Care Act, enacted in 2010, was meant to improve health insurance access for the uninsured and hard to insure across the country. However, in doing this, it placed significant burdens on individuals, large ... -
Small-Scale Fisheries and the Global Fisheries Crisis: A Capabilities Approach
Considering the threat of environmental degradation to fisher livelihoods and wellbeing, this paper focuses on the following questions: 1) How should the wellbeing of small-scale fisherfolk, as derived from their livelihoods ... -
SNAP Into Collaboration: An Analysis of Public and Private Sector Food Security Programs
This paper will first address the gaps left by the federal program SNAP. It will then discuss the private sector programs and finally it will suggest ways that the private sector can improve its methods to greater complement ... -
Social Capital and Poverty: A Community-Based Approach
In the course of this paper I will expand on the moral obligation of enhancing social capital as a means of addressing poverty, examine the resources of social networks that can build social capital and help reduce poverty, ... -
Social Entrepreneurship: Social Businesses in the Fight to Alleviate Poverty
This brings us to the main question: how can social businesses best help in alleviating poverty? I will argue that the hybrid business model, one that combines aspects of both for-profit and nonprofit in their organizational ...