W&L Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability: Recent submissions
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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. ... -
Behind Desks & Bars: The Impact of Latino Underrepresentation in the Workforce of the Criminal Justice System
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with over 2 million people incarcerated in federal, state, or local prisons and jails (Rovner, and Porter). People of color -- particularly Blacks and Latinos ... -
Invisible Harms: Barriers to Undocumented K-12 Students' Education
Approximately one-fourth of all immigrants residing in the United States are unauthorized, meaning they do not have US citizenship or official government approval to live in the US. That statistic looks like 11 million ... -
The Injustice of Giving: Income and Racial Inequality in the United States Loanable Funds Market
The loanable funds market plays an incredibly important role in the lives of almost every American. The mortgages, car leases, business loans, and student loans that generations of Americans have relied on to provide capital ... -
Dual Reality: Opioid Use Disorder among Pregnant Women and Their Children
Individuals who experience a problematic pattern of opioid use or dependence suffer from opioid use disorder (OUD) ("Opioid Use Disorder"). The experience of OUD among pregnant women is unjust because it results not only ... -
Who Gets Hurt: Sexual Exploitation Among Women During Episodes of Homelessness
While the issue of homelessness has been heavily researched, the relationship between sexual assault among women experiencing homelessness remains an underacknowledged subject. Moreover, although both sexual assault and ... -
Inadequate Workforce Skillset as a Corrosive Disadvantage: Enhancing Marketable Skills to Combat Housing and Homelessness Issues
This paper explores three key themes in addressing the housing and homelessness paradigm: resource distribution, deservingness, and quality of housing. Firstly, on resource distribution, should housing programs maximally ... -
Modern Nature vs. Nurture: Why the Genetic Lottery and Epigenetics Matter for Social Justice
While many are hesitant to lean into the power of genetics to shape our lives, it is an incredibly pervasive part of what makes every human being the ways they are and plays a large role in determining the outcomes of one's ... -
Medical Oppression: The Structural Mistreatments of African Americans in the Health Care System
Healthcare oppression is unique in that its consequences are as much physical as they are psychological. The dignity of the person, as well as their health, is threatened by factors that are inherently prejudiced as well ... -
BRAAC Intern Training Manual
Blue Ridge Autism and Achievement Center's mission is to serve children and families who are faced with unique learning challenges, specifically autism and learning disabilities, in and around the Roanoke Valley. . . . ... -
Menstrual Mismanagement: An Economic Synthesis of Period Poverty and its Overlapping Facets in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Existing literature splits experiences of menstrual poverty across hardware and software deprivation lines. . . . This paper will focus on both facets of period poverty specifically in low- and middle-income countries. ... -
A Review of Self-Legitimacy in Policing
While police brutality is not a new subject in America, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in response to consecutive deaths of Black men and women has catalyzed conversations surrounding the structure and function ... -
Looking Toward Food Sovereignty: Assessing the Roadblocks to Reintroducing Traditional Agriculture to the Tohono O'odham Food System
"In a very real sense, the destruction of the traditional food system is killing the Tohono O'odham" (Fazzino 2008). Among a tribe of Native Americans living in southern Arizona, a public health crisis has been unfolding ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
RAMifications for Healthcare: Remote Area Medical and Healthcare Access in Rural Virginia
Remote Area Medical, a healthcare nonprofit based in Rockford, Tennessee, attempts to shore up health disparities experienced by rural Americans, "prevent[ing] pain and alleviat[ing] suffering by providing free, quality ... -
Societal Obligations for Mental Healthcare Provision in Correctional Facilities: An Ethical Approach
The prison system has increasingly come under scrutiny due to poor conditions, racial inequalities, privatization, and overcrowding. Moreover, increasing numbers of incarcerated individuals are being released in response ... -
Exploring Challenges to Nonprofit Engagement in Advocacy
Existing literature on nonprofit advocacy focuses on which environmental or organizational factors influence whether nonprofits engage in advocacy, as well as whether their advocacy influences change. This paper explores ... -
The Stigmatization of Substance Use in U.S. Healthcare
DRUGS. The word evokes a broad array of mental images: pills, syringes, controlled substances, abuse, treatment, professionals, science, and crime. It is almost impossible for people living in the United States to go their ... -
The Power of ZIP Codes: Segregation in Southern California, Reexamined
The ultimate aim of this study is to explore and deconstruct the myriad causes which contribute to segregation's persistence, even when no longer mandated by law as it was only a few generations ago. Within the nation that ...