Course Blog for Soc 3151: Social Issues and Social Policy at Baruch College
Real-life Welfare Quotations
The following are taken from actual letters received by the Welfare Department in applications for support.
- I am forwarding my marriage certificate and 6 children. I had seven but one died which was baptised on a half sheet of paper.
- I am writing the welfare department to say that my baby was born two years [...]
TWO MUST WATCH VIDEOS ABOUT FOOD STAMPS
food stamp of1977 This video demostrated how food stamp were developed and how it solved problem such as malnutrition.
food stamp importance This video illustrates how food stamps today are important part of Chicago’s South Side people. In this video you will see how people in Chicago depand on food [...]
We have been talking about welfare and what it means since the beginning of class. So I decide to go off course a little and just share these two poems that I found on welfare. The first poem by Maya Angelou talks of a welfare mother and the other poem by Karla Dorman talks about [...]
So in class we were talking about the media’s role on poor people and in general- sadly in some aspects the media does play a major role in our lives because they want to get a great story to attract viewers but they don’t always give us the real facts. So I decided to do [...]
I was looking at some blogs today on the internet and came across a website called AssociatedContent. Like many other blogs, viewers rate the postings of amateur and professional authors according to what there thesis, what they actually say, and how they back it up. On the topic of welfare, a user named “Kyle” posted something [...]
Me and my prednant friend went to sign her up for foodstamps and WIC and all that stuff on friday. She is a single mother and the father of the baby wants nothing to do with her or the child meaning that she has to do everything on her own. What I found interesting in [...]
Critical Condition is being streamed in its entirety until Tuesday November 11, 2008.
If you have the time, please watch the film. Not only does it engage you with the participants struggles but you also learn how healthcare in this country is unfairly dispersed on the basis of income level.
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2008/criticalcondition/fullfilm.html
Well since we’re reading this book, I came across an article on the Economix section of the NY Times site: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/do-americans-still-hate-welfare/?scp=1&sq=WELFARE&st=cse
According to the article it seems that Americans don’t really HATE welfare, they just don’t see it as a problem or serious issue:
“…a recent Gallup poll showed that Americans ranked welfare far down the list [...]
The reading for tomorrow comes from the book Why Americans Hate Welfare and the chapter starts off by talking about individualism. This chapter explains how individualism in American plays into why so many people are opposed to welfare. A lot of people come to America to live the “American Dream” which includes working hard for [...]
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