Course Blog for Soc 3151: Social Issues and Social Policy at Baruch College
Nouriel Roubini is a Professor of Economics at NYU, and is has been forecasting this econcomic meltdown for some time. It has earned him the nickname of “Doctor Doom”.
To Mr. Roubini, the most interesting question isn’t the one of who got it right. Instead, he asks why we “over and over again, get into these [...]
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From US News & World Report, via The Week: When Timothy Stewart’s insurer paid only $2,600 of a $13,000 hospital bill, he brought in a hired gun. Medical billing advocates, armed with insider information on billing practices and insurance policies, can help consumers uncover errors and settle disputes with healthcare providers and insurers. You can [...]
This story had even more great perspective than I remember. You’ll be very interested to read the story of the college student who can’t keep up because of the lousy prep she got in high school.
http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/oprahshow…
I couldn’t find anything really brief on this so I will write it out, hopefully shorter:
Ketchup says, “For one thing, the emergency nature of the crisis, the lack of prior long-term planning, and the early New Deal’s flexibility meant that nothing new was really in place until the late 1930’s.” Eh, I don’t think so.
Before [...]
When they said that Roosevelt established the NRA, I was like WT_? Here’s the word:
The other part of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was the National Recovery Administration (NRA), whose task was to establish and administer industrywide codes that prohibited unfair trade practices, set minimum wages and maximum hours, guaranteed workers the right to [...]
I saw this article on cnn.com and thought the chart was particularly helpful. Disclosure: I do not know if people generally consider cnn.com or The Tax Policy Center are especially aligned with certain parties or ideologies. Also, this article is from June 11, 2008, so there might have been revisions. But I thought it would be helpful. [...]
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