Social Policy Essays

Implementation and Evaluation: Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009
8th Feb 2020
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...

The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933: Ethics and Law in Business and Society
8th Feb 2020
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. ...

Strategies for Addressing Inadequate Housing
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: The environment of one’s residence has probably the most significant impact on their satisfaction, behavior, and health since people spend most of their time at their homes. Decent housing ...

Immigration Levels in Australia: An Analysis
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Immigration intake in Australia has been increasing over time. According to Doherty and Evershed (2018), there was a great rise in Australian immigrants from 85000 in 1996 to 208000 in 2017. With...

To What Extent Does the Welfare State of 2018 Resemble Beveridge’s Original Vision?
8th Feb 2020
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...

Strengthening the Affordable Care Act
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Policy Analysis One of the country’s most perilous social problems is the inequity in health care. While the country’s wealthy can afford top-notch services, many people can ...

Policy Development to Reduce Language Barriers in Healthcare
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Policy Memorandum Abstract Policy-making processes enable organizations to not only improve upon productivity and efficiency, but to avoid breaching rules and regulations. Witho...

The Controversy over the ‘Medical Assistance in Dying’ Legislation
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: The true societal cost of medical assistance in dying (MAD) may be the degradation of the value of the lives of our most vulnerable. Medically assisted dying is very controversial and has been de...

Policy Making as Social Values and Not Science
8th Feb 2020
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...

Title X: The Nation’s Program for Affordable Birth Control and Reproductive Health Care
8th Feb 2020
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...

Female Headed Households: Status and Issues for Policy and Design
8th Feb 2020
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 ...

Evaluation of America's Visa System
8th Feb 2020
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...

Strategic Plan for Florida Department of Correction
8th Feb 2020
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...

Whole Community: A Government-centric Approach for Emergency Preparedness
8th Feb 2020
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...

History of Migration, Immigration, Transnationalism, and Political Policies in the United States: 1875-Present
8th Feb 2020
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...

Issues in Planned Parenthood Funding
8th Feb 2020
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...

Social Problem and Policy Analysis of Poverty
8th Feb 2020
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...

The American Welfare System; a Failed Policy
8th Feb 2020
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 ...

Evaluation of Digital Strategy for Borough Council
8th Feb 2020
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...

Cyberbullying Campaigns in Spain
8th Feb 2020
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...

National Family Caregiver Support Act & Social Policy
8th Feb 2020
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...

Impact of the Orphan Drug Act Incentives
8th Feb 2020
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...

Fighting the Drug Epidemic One Step at a Time
8th Feb 2020
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...

Policy Paper: Should Glyphosate be Permanently Banned?
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Glyphosate and it’s controversial benefits and dangers seem to be surfacing in politics around the world. Glyphosate is a synthetic herbicide used to kill broadleaf plants and grasses. You may ...

Evidence Based Policy in Drug Harm Minimisation
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Policy: Drug Harm Minimisation Using one of the case studies/issues presented by the guest lectures as the case study for your essay, do you think that politicians should base their poli...