Course Blog for Soc 3151: Social Issues and Social Policy at Baruch College
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 [...]
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 [...]
Comparing the candidate tax plans.
Today many of us declared out political stand points and i thought it would be interesting to connect that to the upcoming elections and the presidential candidates tax proposals
Here are some things that I found interesting from http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411693_CandidateTaxPlans.pdf
· The two candidates’ plans would have sharply different distributional effects. Senator [...]
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