Social Welfare Institutions

I was thinking about what we talked about in class today about reforms and I was wondering, are reforms just Band-Aids for the broken ”system”?  Reforms fix the problem for now but they don’t help the “root” cause of the problem that the system has like a revolution (possibly because revolutions are too long and costly to push […]

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I went to a panel of journalists today about how poverty is portrayed in the media.  The journalists on the panel pointed out that poverty isn’t covered in the media very often because it’s a “depressing” topic and its not considered a pressing issue.  Many editors don’t want to talk about poverty in their newspapers because […]

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 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/technology/13soft.html?scp=1&sq=Gates+Tells+Congress+What+Is+Needed+for+Better+Work+Force+&st=nyt
I know that I’m early with my blog post but there was an article to today’s NYTimes about Bill Gates’ testimony to the House Committee on Science and Technology on what he believes is needed for a better work force.  The American work force is falling behind the global market because they do not have […]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/us/07green.html?pagewanted=1&ref=environment 
I think that we all agree that one major solution to our waste problem is going green and reducing and reusing, but I think at times we forget the costs that are associated with going green.  In the New York Times article “In Many Communities It’s Not Easy Going Green” by Barringer, she points out […]

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Hi everyone, I’m Christina.  I don’t really know what to write about myself.  Well, I intern at a nonprofit organization (Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies) and I almost always get tongue tied when I say the name of the organization more then twice consecutively.  I also can’t live without my mp3 player!  I have to […]

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