Course Blog for Soc 3151: Social Issues and Social Policy at Baruch College
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I am reading an article from the brooklyn rail
here is is a general summary of what i thought was interesting about reading this article. maybe a main point or two and even my oiwn perspective if I had one. then I’m going to walk the reader through this article [...]
Maria Bartiromo in 1998…
The following are links to a blog called “Financial Armageddon” and I thought they were relevant for us. This might be another good blog to keep track of… and it should help us come up with some really interesting paper ideas….
Marx talks about the adulteration of food, and apparently the practice still happens today
One effect [...]
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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. [...]
I tried to collect some info on IRS audits… I couldnt find a published number, but I did my own rough estimate based on IRS numbers, and it looks like an EITC return is about 8-9 times more likely to be audited – at least in 2002. (.26% vs 1.86%) Here is other info
Apparently the [...]
You can play around on the Census website for current data on poverty in the US…
See Snapshots archive.
Snapshot for January 31, 2007.
Minimum wage increasingly lags poverty line
by Liana Fox
The recently released 2007 federal poverty guideline highlights the severe and growing inadequacy of the minimum wage. Currently, a full-time minimum wage worker (40 hours/week, 52 weeks/year) would earn $10,712 a year, falling nearly 40% below the $17,170 poverty level for a [...]
So this is the 2007 poverty line. What do you think about it? Is it realistic? How much lower or higher would it have to be to actually delineate who is or is not poor? Or is that even possible with one set of numbers?
Over the course of the term we will be talking about all of the negative stereotypes attached to poor mothers and the ways in which welfare/workfare programs establish a norm against which everyone is to be measured. In many ways, Sarah Palin is that norm – the supermom who is able to work and run [...]
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