Task: Welcome back! We'll begin class with notes on the dimensions of stratification, poverty, and social class in America. Then, you'll take a "quiz" on poverty in the US. Finally, we'll end class with a discussion circle on poverty and the working poor.
Homework:
- Wednesday, February 19 - Article discussion for "Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All"
- Thursday, February 20 - Article discussion for "Nickel-and-Dimed"
- Thursday, February 20 - Article discussion for "Moving Up from the Working Class"
- Monday, February 24 - Article discussion for "The US Upper Class"
- Monday, February 24 - Article discussion for "The Uses of Global Poverty"
- Tuesday, February 25 - "What's So Great About America?" reading due (be ready to discuss)
- If you would like to learn more about childhood poverty in America, watch Poor Kids by Frontline (November 2012).
- Roundtable discussion from Fox News, Government Policy Encourages People to Use Food Stamps (April 1, 2013) (Disclaimer - This video clip is posted on a blog critical of Fox News but can not be found on Fox News website.)
- From NPR's Talk of the Nation, "Signing Up for Food Stamps: The Choice & the Stigma" (April 25, 2013)
- From yesterday's Morning Call, "Corbett Test Finds Little Abuse in $2.6 Billion Food Stamp Program" (Steve Esack & Daniel Patrick Sheehan, 28 April 2013)
Resources for class discussion:
From PBS NewsHour (November, 2011)
From NBC News NOW (February 2013)
Resources for class discussion on the working class:
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class
NBC News Video (November 2012)
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