W&L Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability: Recent submissions
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Empowerment and Apartheid's Lingering Legacy: Evaluating the Effectiveness of B-BBEE Policy
This paper evaluates state intervention through South African government policy by assessing the implementation of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Act. First introduced in 2003, this Act has played a ... -
The Essential Poverty of the Face: A Case for Levinasian Responsibility and Justice in Poverty Studies
The moral deliberative theories that ethicists and justice advocates use to address poverty issues all stem from the analytic philosophical tradition, and, while no doubt helpful, they are not fully adequate. Emmanuel ... -
Strengthening the Detroit Economy While Addressing Injustice in Low-Income Neighborhoods Through High-Impact Entrepreneurship
All stakeholders in Detroit have a collective responsibility to reduce injustice in low-income neighborhoods. However, this paper uses a social responsibility framework to argue for the responsibility of high-impact firms ... -
Employment Capability for Individuals with Barriers to Labor Market Entry: The Case of Work-Integration Social Enterprises
In this paper, I will begin by defining social entrepreneurship and giving a brief overview of the rise of the field, both for the sake of clarity and for the relative novelty of the concept. The following section will ... -
The Hidden Homeless: Addressing the Obstacles of the Rural Homeless in Rockbridge County, Virginia
Rural homelessness is an understudied subset of homelessness population in the United States. Yet, the rural homelessness has important distinguishing characteristics and barriers to care that make addressing the problems ... -
A Zero Sum Game: Equitable Distribution of Organ Transplants
The transplantation of organs represents an extraordinary medical breakthrough and has positively impacted the lives of many. However, the supply of transplantable organs is inadequate to provide treatment for everyone who ... -
It's Not (All) About the Money: Why and How Selective Schools Can Better Support Low-Income Students
At selective colleges and universities, access is not the only discussion that needs to happen with regard to low-income students. Selective schools also need to focus on low-income student retention after enrollment, ... -
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 ... -
Low-Income Autistic Children in the Pediatric Hospital: Best Care Practices to Enhance Capabilities
The current research study utilizes a novel approach to disability rights, the Capabilities Approach to Disability, to formulate a moral argument for implementation of best care practices catered toward low-income children ... -
Apples and Autonomy: Improving Nutrition Education to Maximize Fair Equality of Opportunity
Recent increases in children's food autonomy present both a problem and a promise for school nutrition education programs: greater food autonomy makes these programs all the more important, but how can we improve their ... -
Reducing Hospital Readmissions for Vulnerable Patient Populations: Policy Concerns and Interventions
Hospital readmissions present a significant financial burden to Medicare payment systems and indicate poor health outcomes for patients following hospitalization. The Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) ... -
Mitigating the Rural Brain Drain: A Redesign of Dual Enrollment
Students in rural high schools are routinely underperforming when compared to urban and suburban students. Dual enrollment programs, which allow high school students to simultaneously earn postsecondary credit, has been ... -
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 ... -
Standardized Testing in a Non-Standardized World: The Unfairness of High-Stakes Standardized Testing and its Implications for English Language Learners in Texas
This paper aims to determine whether federally mandated standardized tests provide fair equality of opportunity for all students. To assess the effects of high-stakes testing, I researched the performance of English language ... -
The Prosperity Gospel and the Plight of the Poor: Considering increased financial accountability for tax exempt churches
This paper seeks to examine the tax exempt status of churches, their lack of accountability, and the potential for abuse that exists as a consequence. It seeks to answer whether, on the basis of the public policy goals ... -
Homelessness and Trust: The Effects of Homeless Intake Verification on Relationships
Homeless intake verification requires the witnessing and recording of an individual's homelessness to access resources. The invasiveness of this verification causes shame, distrust, and perpetuates negative stereotypes of ... -
A Brighter, Healthier Future for SNAP: How Benefit Restrictions and Administrative Change Can Ensure a more Effective SNAP
SNAP is the largest and most important food program in the Federal Safety Net. Unfortunately, it does not currently meet its dual mandate of reducing food insecurity and improving nutritional outcomes. While it does reduce ... -
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 ... -
Hurdles to Health Behavior: External, Internal, or Somewhere In Between?
While the social gradient of health has been widely discussed for decades, less attention has been given to quantifying the influence of health behaviors, which include both illness and preventative behaviors exhibited by ... -
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 ...