Browsing W&L Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability by Title
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Felony Disenfranchisement
In this paper I will take an in-depth look at the impact of felony disenfranchisement on the poor and more specifically on the African American community. The paper will focus on the current felony disenfranchisement law, ... -
Financial Education as a Means of Reducing Poverty
Low-income families face many barriers to financial well-being. It is necessary that these barriers be addressed, or they will continue to prevent financial stability. There are many issues that plague low-income families, ... -
Financial Exclusion and Banking Participation of America's Working Poor
The highly developed financial system of the U.S. continues to exclude and fail millions of American households -- many of whom are disproportionately low-income and are in need of inclusive banking services the most. This ... -
Flood Control and Poverty: Phillips County, AR and Guyana
Each year global estimates of homelessness, deaths, economic loss and other effects can be analyzed. Throughout these analyses, it is clear that the most vulnerable populations are the world's poorest communities. Structurally ... -
Following Through: America, Britain, and the Rhetorical Drive from Welfare to Work
Sharing a similar cultural, sociological, and legal background, the United States and the United Kingdom provide one another with an opportunity for comparison and reflection. In the specific arena of public assistance, ... -
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 ... -
Foster Care Youth and Education
In my research paper I will focus on education for youth in the foster care system. First, I will discuss the history of the foster care system and outline the protocol of the child welfare system and how a child moves ... -
Fragmented Families in Poverty: Looking Back and Stepping Forward
This paper begins with a theoretical overview of the history, scope, causes, and effects of nonresident fatherhood. We will then explore three roles a father plays in a family: economic, social, and psychological. ... -
Freedom and Moral Responsibility in a Deterministic Universe: Perspectives from Buddhism and Clinical Psychology (thesis)
I will be arguing that the concept of an ultimately free agent who takes final responsibility for his actions and desires is inherently incompatible with the dominant western paradigm of materialism and universal causation. ... -
The Future's Fix: Using Information and Communications Technology to Reduce Global Poverty
Technological inventions such as the Internet, satellites, mobile technology, and wireless access to information have infiltrated nearly every aspect of human life: personal communication has become distant and instant, ... -
Gatekeeping Between Government and Religion: Faith-Based Initiative Competition and Supervision
Communities of the world's major religions have always incorporated care for others into their central teachings. Politicians have recently seized upon the relative success of these faith-based organizations' services. ... -
The GED Program & Outcomes for Disadvantaged Students
The GED certification program started as an alternative education route for war veterans. It has greatly expanded to serve individuals of all ages and backgrounds who lack a high school diploma. Over one-half million ... -
Gender Inequality in African Education: How Can the Lessons of South Africa Apply to the Rest of the Continent?
The worldwide problem of unequal female education cannot be solved by domestic policies alone, and the global institutional order must bend to the necessity of human rights and equality. Promoting growth is not a sufficient ... -
[Georgia's Public Defense System]
During the second half of the 20th century, the United States Supreme Court increased the financial burden on state public defender systems by requiring that every defendant actually imprisoned – whether for a felony or a ... -
Getting Kicked When You Are Down: The Criminal Law and the Homeless in the United States
In recent years, both local and federal efforts to solve the homelessness epidemic have concentrated on criminalizing the chronic population, currently about 84,000 nationwide. In this paper I intend to examine how this ... -
Groundwater Contamination in Bangladesh: Causes, Effects, and Remediations
Environmental scientist Dipankar Chakraborti captures the lack of understanding among the Bangladesh population to the severity and occurrence of arsenic contamination. Though arsenic patients are generally documented from ... -
Hand in Hand: The Impacts of Parental Insurance on Child Health
Healthy parents equals healthy kids. While this statement seems intuitive, policy does not always translate as so. Insurance for children is widely available, yet more controversial for adults. However, this neglects the ... -
Health Inequality in the Andes: An Ethnicity-Centered Approach
In summary, there exists a significant body of work on health inequalities in the Andes. However, much of this literature provides somewhat fragmented pieces of a complex whole with respect to the production of health ... -
Health Outcomes for Undocumented Children and Families in America: A Moral and Ethical Concern
The growing interest surrounding the estimated 11 million unaccounted, undocumented immigrants in America brings to light the issue not only from a governmental policy perspective, but also on a community level framework ... -
Health, Wealth and Poverty: Why the U.S. Needs Universal Healthcare
Among industrialized nations, twenty-eight of the twenty-nine cited by the World Health Organiztion have some form of universal healthcare. The exception is the United States. Poor people are the most likely to be uninsured ...