Material for the final exam:

Some basic resources (this stuff is fair game, but I'd only use it to emphasize other points we've covered in-depth lo these last 5 weeks)
Some term project guidance
Some basic concepts

Week 6
The working poor

Week 7
Caricatures of the poor
Living wages

Week 8
McDonaldization and work
The problem of Social Security (outline)

Weeks 9 - 10
Expanding the welfare concept (corporate welfare)
Community Development
Low wage work and poverty--comparing perspectives
Reforming welfare reform
Outline
Outline

Material for midterm exam

Week 1
Welfare basics
Some statistics, concepts dealing with poverty
More on inequality
Structural and individual explanations
Discussion outline
Discussion outline 2

Week 2
Social welfare: Historical highlights
Capitalism primer
Welfare as regulator of the poor?
Welfare in the 1960s
The Business backlash
Outline

Week 3
Is there a culture of poverty?
Rural poverty
Who benefits from poverty?
Systems of privilege
Outline

Week 4
Some basic questions to ask about welfare programs
Welfare programs

Week 5
Bureaucracy
Work ethic and family values(?)