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[Healthcare Policy Reforms for the Uninsured and Underinsured]
Contemporary means of healthcare for both the uninsured and underinsured lead to insufficient access to medical resources and disproportionately poor health outcomes for both groups. Current obstacles to access include ...
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 ...
Immigrant Access to Justice: Implications in Real Human Lives
This paper is divided into eight sections. I begin with a discussion of existing literature on the sociocultural factors which produce migrant women's disproportionate vulnerability. I then introduce three moral frameworks ...
Problems with Education Educational Reform in the Dominican Republic
An in-depth look at the issues plaguing the educational system within the Dominican Republic. The paper focuses on primary and secondary education with an emphasis in both the problems and reforms of currently in place.
Protecting Women on the Rolls: Emphasizing Consistency and Empowerment in TANF’s Family Violence Option
Domestic violence is an experience that threatens the health and well-being of all victims, but perhaps none more so than women who depend on government aid. Studies suggest that a culture of empowerment lessens instances ...
Food Freedom: Combatting Paternalism in SNAP
The purpose of this paper was to state the case that we ought not to restrict sugar-sweetened beverages from SNAP because it would be ineffective, stigmatizing, paternalistic, and would violate human capabilities. Moving ...
Differing Views of Teach For America: Where Does the Controversy Lie?
Founded by Wendy Kopp in 1990, Teach For America has gained both supporters and critics along its way to becoming a nation-wide movement towards achieving educational equity. In an effort to understand the controversy ...
Assessing Philosophical Approaches to Combating International Poverty
This paper will examine several philosophical approaches to poverty, and attempt to find the one among them that will be most effective in the fight against international poverty. The four major approaches that will be ...
Impact of Transportation Barriers and Stigmas on the Labor Force Participation of Women in Urban Cities in India
The three important aspects of an ethical framework that promoting human dignity are well-being, liberty, and equality (Pickett, 2022). All three of these are important for a person to live a life if dignity and happiness. ...
Microfinance in Rural Ghana
This paper will explore microfinance in rural Ghana. First, it will begin with an overview of Ghana's overall approach to poverty reduction followed by an overview of the current poverty situation in Ghana. The next section ...