Course Blog for Soc 3151: Social Issues and Social Policy at Baruch College
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Ran across this link on YouTube and obviously it correlates to our ongoing discussion in class. Listen in to what Hannity says, specifically the part where he states “there are even people under the Obama tax plan that don’t work or pay taxes that will get money back”. Hannity makes it seem, as most conservatives [...]
In my public policy class we are doing a project on Sport stadiums and how they are being built by tax money. I just wanted to throw out a few numbers.
These are all from the book “A Field of Schemes” by Joanna Cagan and Neil DeMause
The construction of a new stadium can cost close to [...]
As I was doing research for my topic, The Social Welfare and Economic Imbalance In The Balkans, i came across this article that really blew my mind. As this is a class about social welfare and it encourages our questioning of these institutions, I remembered that it also provides for the analysis of these functions [...]
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So this is a recent article on NYTimes in which both McCain and Obama criticize the other’s tax policies, while making references to welfare. Basically McCain has been calling Obama’s Tax proposal a “welfare giveaway to working class voters”. He even accuses Obama of wanting to turn the IRS “into a giant welfare agency, redistributing [...]
Social security benefits are the conversations I hear my parents “the baby boomers” and their friends having these days with the current state of our economy. “Should we work for a couple more years so that we would be able to get our full benefits?” “what will happen to these benefits for the next generation [...]
I know that we have all heard of what people think of people who receive welfare. The media plays a huge role in what people come to understand about welfare. Well this article that I found provides evidence that there are many other ways to cheat the government for money. The link I included shares [...]
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I found this study about the WEP (Work Experience Program) in NYC. It localizes what we were talking about in class yesterday. The PDF is a little long, but it is very informative.
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This article shows four people trying to cheat the system by stealing money from people that needed welfare. They would steal government adoption subsidy payments that were supposed to be given to parents of adoptive children, some of whom had mental and physical disabilities. The second scheme was to steal money from the ACS by [...]
I found this charts and they really caught my attention because i was never really familiar with the whole food stamps system untill now… It’s interesting to see how according to chart 1, some 85 percent of the benefits go to single parent homes or homes with no parents and only 15 percent go to children in [...]
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