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BIOMAGNIFICATION AND BIOACCUMULATION OF POLLUTANTS AND HOW THEY DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACT THE PEOPLE OF “CANCER ALLEY”

Gyetvai, Abigail M. (University of Oregon, 2020-06)

This honors thesis examines the environmental, sociopolitical, and socioeconomical aspects of Cancer Alley, Louisiana, United States of America. Cancer Alley is a name dubbed to an eighty-five-mile-long corridor in ...
Classroom, Campus, Community: Lower-Class Agency in Higher Education

Kratwell, Paul (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

Lower-class language, logics, and ways of being have been excluded from higher education, especially at selective universities. Fewer people from the lower classes enroll, and those who manage to matriculate do so as ...
Modern-Day Microfinance: Kiva.org and its Pretty Picture of a Flawed System

Bean, Wyatt (University of Oregon, 2023)

Microfinance, the alternative financial system for addressing poverty and other associated issues affecting impoverished individuals, has evolved over the course of the last 50 years. Through this thesis, I investigated ...
Oregon Families Who Left Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) or Food Stamps: A Study of Economic and Family Well-Being From 1998 to 2000 (Vol. 1)

CSWS Welfare Research Team; Acker, Joan; Morgen, Sandra; Heath, Terri; Barry, Kate; Gonzales, Lisa; Weigt, Jill (University of Oregon, 2001-01)

What happens to families that leave or are diverted from cash assistance or Food Stamps in Oregon? Dramatic reductions in public assistance caseloads after welfare reform have raised public concern about poor families. ...
Oregon Families Who Left Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) or Food Stamps: In-Depth Interview Themes and Family Profiles (Vol. 2)

CSWS Welfare Research Team; Acker, Joan; Morgen, Sandra; Heath, Terri; Barry, Kate; Gonzales, Lisa; Weigt, Jill (Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2001-01)

The success and limitations of Oregon’s welfare reform policies are best measured by an examination of the effects of these policies on the economic status and well-being of families whose lives have been most directly ...