Course Blog for Soc 3151: Social Issues and Social Policy at Baruch College
Below I have posted a link to ABC news. If you do not have time to read the article you should watch the video.
The link, I believe, relates to what we talk about in class – the difference between the social democratic model of welfare (Keynes) and the liberal/conservative model (Friedman). I believe the main [...]
I found an interesting article in NY times about the number of people on welfare is declining even though we are in a recession.
Just a thought I would like to share with the class about something I noticed over the years. Now, I used to live by the projects in Coney Island, Brooklyn (not actually in the projects but close enough) for many years. Every time I used to go somewhere I always used to drive by the [...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/nyregion/26fraud.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin
I found this earlier today. It just goes against alot of the stereotypes in the books and articales we’ve read in class.
Welfare cheating has become a business for some people. People who would be making more than enough are stealing from the government, because they work for cash busniess it’s pretty unfair.
Welfare cheats, come in all different colors and walks of [...]
As promised….. Erik.
Now to be fair – he didn’t actually dress like this. We ended up at Jurgen’s family compound one night because it was too late to go back to town (Storuman) and when we got there it was FREEZING so we all found whatever clothes we could to put on to sleep in. [...]
Senator John Labruzzo (R) member of the Louisiana State House believes that generational welfare is a major problem in Louisiana.
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Here are two other news clips on the same topic with some more detailed information:
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and
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0z3zsLdL...[/youtube]
Absent from these videos is the following discussion: Payment for the reversal of the tubes, and/or IVF (aka invitro – if normal intercourse is not an [...]
the last two readings that we read and touched on wednesday talked about some big issues in welfare possibly the biggest issue which is the children on and affected by welfare. when i read through these readings it made me realize how much these children do get affected and that children are a really big [...]
This is an interesting article regarding the “Family Caps” that we spoke about in class. The article has a more conservative lean, which I thought might be appealing. <http://www.i2i.org/main/article.php?article_id=439>
My favorite part of the article is when the author points out that when a working family has more children, their employer doesn’t go and give them a raise—similarly, [...]
For those of you who haven’t seen this video, look at it when you have sometime. Its a nice comparison between the welfare systems of America and some countries in Europe. Its sad to see how crappy our health care system is, compared to Britain, Canada and France.
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=6GLO6VSV
So in “Let them eat Ketchup” I thought it was interesting how she refered to those women on welfare as”welfare Queens” because these women are never going to get off the system- insteasd of using this system as a stepping stone they just make it their lives. Another interseting point that the author made was [...]
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