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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This comic refers to the financial crisis the United States is currently facing. The crisis is a very complicated situation, but I’ll try to bring up the main points:

From 2001 to 2005, the value of homes in the United States increased sharply. Because their homes increased in value, many homeowners borrowed money from what they […]

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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.wakeupwalmart.com/workers/ 
This is a website with real stories of employees’ working experiences at Wal-Mart. A lot of the stories they share are similar to the Wal-Mart readings we read in class. Employees complain about long working hours, low wages, and unaffordable health insurance. One of the employees works at Wal-Mart as a stocker, she was injured […]

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A while ago we talked about colonization and the obvious detrimental effects it has on society. But then again we never even acknowledged that our country wouldn’t have even been founded if it wasn’t for colonization.
Furthermore in the case of India….
Before the British colonized India there was a great division among the people. There wasn’t […]

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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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Ok i know we already discussed this in class but I had some more thoughts on it…
Lets start with what I proposed:
I will pay my workers the exact wage worth their labor power.
8 hours of work will produce a good worth $8.00. I will get no profit from this arrangement. To get a profit I […]

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Link to article.
Here is an article that somewhat relates to our class a few weeks ago. It is about water contamination and what providers are doing. First they aren’t doing much and they insist the levels of chemicals are safe. Second water providers rarely disclose results of pharmaceutical screenings, unless pressed according to the news […]

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I worked at a law service firm part time as office assistant and a messenger for half a year (same place for both jobs). My duty as a office assistant is to file papers, copying scanning and data entry. Also I filled in the roles of messengers who are out, where I actually go out […]

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 http://www.milkeninstitute.org/pdf/globalization_pb.pdf
This article is written in January 2003 by Michael D. Intriligator, a senior fellow from Milken Institute. He is the professor of Economics, Political Science, and Policy Studies from University of California, Los Angeles. The name of the article is “Globalization of the World Economy: Potential Benefits and Costs and Net Assessment.” This article is […]

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“This means that the owners’ drive to make profits is not necessarily in the interests of the majority of people.  It regularly happens that the pursuit of profits actually does damage to people, and it is not at all uncommon that it sometimes kills them”–Yates pg 35
Made me think about that the concept of “consumers […]

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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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This New York Times article talks about the role of deregulation and easy credit that has created the subprime meltdown our economy is struggling with today. One passage reminds me of what we discussed in class on neoliberalism:
“Is anyone ever going to wake up to the fact that there is a lot of larceny in […]

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Hi every one my name is Marie. m, i am originaly from Congo in Central Africa and i have been living in the USA for 9 years. I have two children one is 8 and one is 7. in my free time, i like to hang out my kids in central park.

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hey guys…
My name is Lisa and I was just added to your group. So i just wanted to introduce myself.

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So we are going to use this blog starting next week - and I want to go over some of the ways I’m thinking about it - just to get things started.
I’ve posted a few things to the blog so far - they are each articles or links to articles that are relevant to our […]

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My name is Stanley Lew. Stan for short. I’m majoring in sociology and psychology. Interning at S&P. That is all I have to say. If there is any questions ask me.

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Whats up Everyone! First off let me say Lets go Giants!! Super Bowl was amazing. As you can see I am a football fan.  Which is a bit strange seeing as I am Dominican and baseball should be my thing…. I am 22 years old and very confused as to what I want to do […]

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When I have nothing better to do in my free time, I read user-submitted stories from websites such as Slashdot or update my very foolish blog. I really enjoy playing touch football at Columbus Park, Chinatown whenever I get the chance.

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