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SHECP Interns Publish Articles in VA Engage Journal

Two SHECP Internship Alumni, Rebecca B. Dunn and Anna Paden Carson, have been published in the current issue of VA Engage Journal (Vol 4....

Isabella Martin Explores the Transition of Appalachian Youth into Higher Education

Isabella Martin writes a short story to help us understand the transition that youth from low-income rural families must make as they...

Lindy Stevens Explores the Impacts of No Child Left Behind

Lindy Stevens, formerly a Teach for American participant and currently a law student at Washington and Lee, finds that No Child Left...

Law Student Takes Practical Approach to Public Policy and Affordable Housing

Jake Struebing, currently attending Yale Law School, takes a realistic approach to law, public policy, and affordable housing. To view...

Caleb David Examines Prisoner Reintegration Policies

Caleb David, a law student, examines policies in Pennsylvania and West Virginia and at the federal level that support the reintegration...

Caroline Gill Analyzes Tax Expenditure Effects on Anti-Poverty Policy Budgets

Caroline Gill, currently working for J.P. Morgan in New York, analyzes the regressive nature of tax expenditures and their effect on the...

Neglected Tropical Diseases in the United States

The following paper by Lee Haruno, a Poverty Studies minor from the University of Notre Dame, focuses on epidemiology and the science of...

To Reduce the Deficit, End Redistribution to the Rich

A policy brief researched and prepared by Joe Landry, a 2013 graduate of Washington and Lee University. Landry parlayed this work into a...

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