Course Blog for Soc 3151: Social Issues and Social Policy at Baruch College
Here are several cartoonists’ depictions on the state of welfare programs, social security, etc…The illustrations provide a different perspective of welfare. Feel free to express your thought on how you interpret the illustrations.
Cartoon 1
Cartoon 2(Note: The small boat says “social programs”.)
Cartoon 3 (Note: As of 2007, there was a flood of baby boomers who took [...]
I never actually read the magazines that come to my house, but once I saw the cover of Newsweek magazine and Sarah Palin with the caption “She’s one of the Folks” (And that’s the problem) I was tempted to read, but don’t worry, I’m going to enlighten you guys about another major issue in the [...]
DR.RON PAUL GREAT link that tells us about how Dr. Ron Paul think about welfare state
The Financial Crisis and how it will affect the welfare to work policy
I read this article and thought it was interesting. A policy call the welfare to work policy was enacted to keep the labor market active when a recession is threating. What it does is trampoline does unempolyed people back to work and not just [...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/nyregion/26fraud.html?scp=6&sq=welfare&st=cse
I read this article and I found it to be interesting. What interests me the most is how people could get away with this for such a long time. I mean how can they be making so much money and when they applied for welfare and food stapms the authority didn’t even check that they [...]
I recently heard an amazing observation about this presidential race that I wanted to share. I know our nation has deeply rooted racial biases that most of the time, are hidden from plain sight. The notion that there is a political science term called the “Bradley Effect”, which essentially says that for a black man/woman [...]
Just recently the American citizens were given a very bitter financial pill to swallow. To make it go down abit better I heard alot of sweetners were added like caps on manager salaries and the like. It kind of reminds me of when I was a kid and I used to be given code liver [...]
Critical Condition is a short film that tells the story of 4 ordinary, hard-working Americans and their experience with Healthcare in the United States. By the end of the film I found myself crying and was disgusted to see how being uninsured cost some of them their jobs, health, homes, savings, and even their lives.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/video/flv/generic.html?s=amdo1fp44b
I learned that [...]
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