Social Policy Essays

Fighting the Drug Epidemic One Step at a Time
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Introduction: Fighting the Drug Epidemic One Step at a Time  Drugs are a problem that almost everyone is familiar with. How they can ruin lives and how hard it is to get over the addiction. Addic...

Impact of the Orphan Drug Act Incentives
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Introduction: Impact of the Orphan Drug Act Incentives Background The Orphan Drug Act (ODA) of 1983 was created in an attempt to address an unmet pharmaceutical development need in healthcare...

National Family Caregiver Support Act & Social Policy
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Introduction: NFCSA & background In the year 2000, the Older Americans Act (OAA), originally enacted in 1965, was amended, providing pathways of support to family caregivers of the elderly; as wel...

Cyberbullying Campaigns in Spain
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Introduction: Cyberbullying is a type of harassment which has impacted in an influential way in today’s society. In summary it is the use of the technological means in order to exert the psychological harass...

Evaluation of Digital Strategy for Borough Council
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Introduction: Introduction In assignment one the current position of Solihull MBC was presented and this report will discuss the position and the barriers found and also discuss the importance and con...

The American Welfare System; a Failed Policy
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Introduction: For two decades, the United States (U.S.) has exemplified a country that is both focused on maintaining an independent society and providing financial assistance for those in need. In 1992, Bill ...

Social Problem and Policy Analysis of Poverty
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Introduction: Final Policy Analysis Topic: Poverty Introduction  As Nelson Mandela once said “As long as. Poverty, injustice, and gross inequality persist in our world, none o...

Issues in Planned Parenthood Funding
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Introduction: Planned Parenthood partakes in illegal fetal tissue sale that violates what the current law states.This organization has been given a bad reputation since it was founded in October of 1916. Peopl...

History of Migration, Immigration, Transnationalism, and Political Policies in the United States: 1875-Present
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Introduction: About 30,000 years ago the first migration to North America occurred when “Paleo Indians walked across a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska then migrated their way down south. This happened...

Whole Community: A Government-centric Approach for Emergency Preparedness
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Introduction: Introduction The inevitability of change has become the one constant of modern community life (Plodinec, Edwards, & White, 2014). Some changes can be anticipated such as natural disa...

Strategic Plan for Florida Department of Correction
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Introduction: The agency that this paper is focused on is the Florida Department of Corrections this agency is charged with the management, protection, custodianship, as well as authority over the close to 100...

Evaluation of America's Visa System
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Introduction: SHOULD DIVERSITY VISA BE CANCELLED? On October 31st, 2017, a suspected terrorist who is a 29-year-old uber driver and a professional truck driver mowed down pedestrians and cyclists alon...

Female Headed Households: Status and Issues for Policy and Design
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Introduction: Introduction “Gender is defined as what a given society believes about the appropriate roles and activities of men and women, and the behaviours that result from these beliefs. Gender ...

Title X: The Nation’s Program for Affordable Birth Control and Reproductive Health Care
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Introduction: For more than 40 years, Title X family planning clinics have played a critical role in ensuring access to a broad range of family planning and related preventive health services for low-income, u...

Policy Making as Social Values and Not Science
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Introduction: Evaluating the claim of Greenhalgh and Russell that policy-making is about the negotiation of social values and not simply a rational and scientific process. Introduction Much e...

The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933: Ethics and Law in Business and Society
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Introduction:   Introduction The purpose of this policy paper is to understand the history behind the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 and evaluate its main purpose towards society. ...

Obesity in the United Kingdom: 2010-2015 Policy on Obesity and Healthy Eating
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Introduction: Executive Summary The objective of this assignment is threefold. First of all, it is intended to analyze the available research so as to provide assessment of the magnitude of obesity in...

Annotated Bibliography on United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality
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Introduction: Buvinić, M., Open Knowledge Repository, & World Bank e-Library. (2008). Equality for women: Where do we stand on millennium development goal 3? Washington, DC: World Bank. ...

An Analysis of the Americans with Disabilities Act
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Introduction: Abstract  This paper examines the effectiveness of the Americans with Disabilities Act using current and historical data on employment ratios and median income from several governme...

Advocacy Letter and Report on Anti-Black Racism
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Introduction: Attn: Mayor John Tory Office of the Mayor City Hall, 2nd Floor Toronto, Ontario M5H 2N2 CC: Andrew Pringle, Chair, Toronto Police Services & Mark ...

Evaluation of the Welfare State
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Introduction: Essay – Imagine yourself in an original state behind a veil of ignorance, you know nothing about the family you were born into. What type of welfare state would you prefer and why? ...

Annotated Bibliography: Raising the Minimum Wage
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Introduction: THESIS STATEMENT:  The debate for minimum wage increase should focus primarily on America’s multinational corporate employers and not the small business economy because of the threat it wo...

Implementation and Evaluation: Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009
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Introduction: The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (“the Act”) was a celebrated victory for democrats in 2009. It was hailed as an advancement of civil rights. Overall, the Ledbetter Act had four impacts mainl...

Impacts of Controlling Population Growth
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Introduction: The effects of delaying marriages, medical facilities, women empowerment and the eradication of poverty are controlling the population growth. This essay will talk about why the government should...

To What Extent Does the Welfare State of 2018 Resemble Beveridge’s Original Vision?
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Introduction: The welfare state – defined as a system whereby a nation supports its citizens’ health and well-being, particularly those who are socially or financially vulnerable – originates from we...