homeless crisis's top 3 resources

My first source is an article from nymag.com called, “Why It's So Hard to Stop Being Homeless in New York,” by D.W. Gibson.  I found this article very consistent because it brings an understanding of why the city’s homeless crisis continues to get worse each year.  It also expresses eight true-life stories of individuals who were still struggling to get by with homelessness as examples of how serious the situation is today.  

The second source is a article called “7 Policies to End Family Homelessness” from shelterforce.org, an independent, non-academic publication that supports low-income families, affordable housing and neighborhood stabilization.  This website suggests ways in ending homelessness in New York and also prevent homeless from resurrecting.

The third source is povertyhistory.org.  This website shows a vast collection of historical events and stories about poverty and homelessness, from dated 1650 of Early New York to the Urban Poverty era of 1977 and beyond. The website is run by the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness (ICPH), an independent nonprofit research and policy-analysis organization that focuses on the complex issues of family homelessness and informs the general public about these issues.   

Work Cited

Gibson, D. W. "Why It's So Hard to Stop Being Homeless in New York." Daily Intelligencer. New York Media, LLC, 22 Mar. 2017. Web. 27 Oct. 2017. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/nyc-homelessness-crisis.html                                                  

Kende, Judi, Jennifer March, and Carol Corden. "7 Policies to End Family Homelessness." Shelterforce. National Housing Institute, 10 Aug. 2017. Web. 27 Oct. 2017. https://shelterforce.org/2017/07/12/homelessness-housing-integrated-plan-new-york

"1997- Today New Urban Poverty." History of Poverty & Homelessness in NYC. Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness, n.d. Web. 27 Oct. 2017. http://povertyhistory.org/era/today                                                  

Imigration and Crime

Sources for my research paper:

1) Camarota, S. and Vaughan, J. "Immigration and Crime Assessing a Conflicted Issue". Center For Immigration. Web. (November 18, 2009).

2) Nowrasteh, A. "Immigration and Crime, What The Research Says". Cato Library. Web. (July 14, 2015).

3) LLia Somin. " Immigration and Crime, The Volokh Conspiracy". Web. (July 14,2015)

Why doesn't NYC have a lot of manufacturing plants?

My topic is on, Why doesn't NYC have a lot of manufacturing plants? Basically it comes down to outsourcing. The main reason why so many manufacturing plants left not just NYC but the United states is because of high taxes being imposed to all manufacturing plants, so these companies decided to send their manufacturing side of their companies over seas to avoid the high taxes. I have three sources for my research paper so far. One is Mary A. Marchant and Sanjeev Kumar. Dr. Marchant is a Professor, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, at Virginia Tech  and Sanjeev Kumar  was a noted Indian film actor. One of Dr. Marchant's and Sanjeev Kumar articles gives a great light on the general basics of outsourcing, especially since Dr. Marchant has been studying outsourcing for years. 

  Second source is, Dr. K. Morris Speter has significant (25 years) corporate and academic (13 years) experience. He  taught Marketing and International Business at Mercy College and has been doing research about economic development in Africa and China and the impact of Globalization. He has published more than 60 papers and presented many of them at various academic conferences. His work basically proofs he's a credible source. He really sheds light about the impact of Globalization which helps certain points I'm making in my research paper. 

My third source is a data scientist in Denmark and the author of  "Productivity Impacts of Offshoring and Outsourcing"  Karsten Bjerring Olsen is a definitely credible source and uses research data to proof the impacts of offshoring, which help my case in my research paper. 

Work Cited

Karsten Bjerring Olsen, Productivity Impacts of Offshoring and Outsourcing: A Review. STI Working Paper 2006/1

Mary A. Marchant and Sanjeev Kumar. An Overview of U.S. Foreign Direct Investment and Outsourcing. Review of Agricultural Economics 379–386. 2005

Morris, Speter. Globalization, Free Trade, and Outsourcing A College Student's Perspective; Northeast Business & Economics Association 35th Annual Conference. 2008

What're The Main Causes of Juvenile Delinquency? (3 sources)

For my research paper based on the causes of juvenile delinquency, I have found 3 reliable sources. All of the sources I have found are from the internet and come from scholarly sites. 

1) Birckhead, T. "Delinquent by Reason of Poverty". Washington University Journal of Law & Policy. Volume 38. (2012) 10/23/17

2) Burgess, W. "Economic Factor in Juvenile Delinquency".  Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. Volume 43. (1952-1953) 10/23/17

3) Sullenger, T. E. "Juvenile Delinquency a Product of the Home". Journal of Criminal Law &Criminology. Volume 24. (1933-1934) 10/24/17

Those are my sources thus far and I plan on getting more!

Should sugary drink consumption be reduced, and are taxes a good way to achieve this?


My first source is an article from the New York Time “For weight Loss, Water Beat Diet Soda”. This article is relevant to my research because show how water is more helpful to lose weight than diet soda. Water help “half of 81 women with overweight and diabetes to  lost and average of 14 pounds, while the diet soda group lost 11.5 pounds, after 24 weeks”. Diet soda has an average of 1 gram of sugar, while water doesn't have a gram of sugar. Also, the author show how the group who consumed water, their metabolism get better and they had “a greater improvements in fasting insulin” while the other group didn’t.

My second sources is another article from the New York Time “New York Plans to Ban Sale of Big Sizes of Sugary Drinks”. I choose these sources because it's a reliable source. The author Michael M. Grynbaum discusses about banning the big size of sugary drinks. Also, he states the reason why New York and Bloomberg want to reduce the sizes of sugary drinks.

My third source is from the CDC According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sugary drinks such as “Soda, and fruit drinks” these products does not contain the necessary amount of nutrients to be considerate “healthy” and it could produce an illness such as diabetes or over-weight. For these reasons these article is relevant to my research because it show how sugary drinks could be harmful for us.

Works Cited



Bakalar, Nicholas. "For Weight Loss, Water Beats Diet Soda." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia, 20 Oct. 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/well/eat/for-weight-loss-water-beats-diet-soda.html.
Grynbaum, Michael M. "Bloomberg Plans a Ban on Large Sugared Drinks." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia, 30 2012, www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/nyregion/bloomberg-plans-a-ban-on-large-sugared-drinks.html.
Park, Sohyun, et al. "Prevalence of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake Among Adults — 23 States and the District of Columbia, 2013 | MMWR." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 25 Aug. 2017, www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6507a1.htm.

Is Broken Window Effective?

My research topic is about if Broken Window is effective?. Broken Window is a policing  theory introduced by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling with the purpose of maintaining and restore order and reduce crime in designated neighborhoods. This policing theory will help to prevent minor incidents as vandalism, graffiti and public drinking from become bigger incidents.  In order to prove the effectiveness of this controversial policing I have gathered some reputable sources. My first source is from http://www.npr.org, an article named "How A Theory Of Crime And Policing Was Born, And Went Terribly Wrong”. I choose this article because it came from a reliable source. This article has current information about what works and what didn’t about the introduced policing. The second source on my list is from https://mises.org. The article is titled “The Broken Windows Theory of Policing Has Failed”. I like to use this source because it introduces us to a definition, a comparison and posibles cause of failures of the theory of Broken Window. The third source is from https://www.manhattan-institute.org and it is tittled “This Works: Crime Prevention and the Future of Broken Windows Policing”. I picked this source because it is reliable and has a lot of information between definitions, points of  view collected from people who has been involved in the development of this policing and how it has help some communities.

Works Cited

Boyle, Tara, et al. “How A Theory Of Crime And Policing Was Born, And Went Terribly Wrong.” NPR, NPR, 29 May 2017, www.npr.org/2017/05/29/530192364/how-a-theory-of-crime-and-policing-was-born-and-went-terribly-wrong. Web 26 Oct 2017

McMaken, Ryan. “The Broken Windows Theory of Policing Has Failed.” Mises Institute, 14 July 2016, mises.org/blog/broken-windows-theory-policing-has-failed. Web 26 Oct 2017

Wilson, James Q. “This Works: Crime Prevention and the Future of Broken Windows Policing.” Manhattan Institute, 11 Nov. 2015, www.manhattan-institute.org/html/works-crime-prevention-and-future-broken-windows-policing-5629.html. Web 26 Oct 2017

Do New Yorkers still cook today? Research Review.

“Food has replaced music at the heart of the cultural conversation,” (Dornbusch) Somehow the focus of culture has drifted towards food and the experience one gets from the act itself.  People commonly refer to themselves as a foodie, a person with a particular interest in food; a gourmet. With that being said, Dornbusch focuses on the percentage of people that eat out vs the more traditional cooking at home method due to cost. She references a study that was done on the costs of eating out, it being cheaper by nearly $2 or $3 dollars than cooking at home. To test this absurd theory in her eyes, she goes out to eat and then replicates the meal at home herself.  The costs are very close as far as grocery shopping goes but with left overs taken into account, cooking at home resulted in being much cheaper. This article helps support my thesis of how cooking has changed throughout the years.  With grocery cost so high, eating out can seem more likely than cooking at home.

Another focus I have is what are the leading causes for people eating out?  Seasonal trends in restaurants show that sales drop around the holiday. People are staying in more to cook or spend time with their family. Yet fast food restaurants thrive during this time, while dine in restaurants suffer. Is this due to the fact of a busy schedule? Needing to be on the go? This ties directly into NYC living of constantly being on the go. The article helps bring light to the causes of how cooking or food as a culture has changed.

This article focuses more on the numbers and trends of the restaurant industry. "Restaurants have grown from 25 percent of food spending in the 1950s to more than half, today. The shift has been accelerating: In the last decade, spending at restaurants and bars has grown twice as fast as all other retail spending, like clothes and cars." Millennials  particularly in the past 10 years have increased the amount of spending money that ever before. This might be due to the new culture trend of food. Extra funds that can be spent towards eating and drinking, or maybe the huge convenience of take out options that are available. Take out companies such as Seamless, Grub Hub, Postmates, and Uber eats make ordering food online utterly effortless. This article taps into the huge market of takeout and how it's grown throughout the years.

Dornbusch, Jane . “Is eating out cheaper than cooking at home?” Boston Globe, Aug. 20ADAD, 2013, www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/food-dining/2013/08/20/put-new-study-test-eating-out-cheaper-than-cooking-home/CytldzC97LORKpESA31RTI/story.html.

Thompson, Derek. “The Paradox of American Restaurants.” The Atlantic , June 20ADAD, 2017, www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/its-the-golden-age-of-restaurants-in-america/530955/.

Higuera, Valencia. “Easonal Factors Affecting the Restaurant Industry.” Chron, smallbusiness.chron.com/seasonal-factors-affecting-restaurant-industry-31192.html.