Basics
Some key concepts
Welfare basics

Week 1
Some statistics, concepts dealing with poverty
More on inequality
Structural and individual explanations
Discussion outline
Discussion outline 2
Lareau's book, comparing the two schools, child-rearing
More recent stats

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
Living wage
Outline

Week 4
Some basic questions to ask about welfare programs
Welfare programs
'Work ethic' and welfare reform
Federal programs
Outline

Week 5
Family values
Bureaucracy
Looking back
Outline

Week 6

Midterm, small groups ...

Week 7

Caricatures of the poor
Social Security
Outline

Week 8
Low wage work and poverty--comparing perspectives
Low wage work
Trends in the labor force
Money problems
the Fast Food model
Mead and Ehrenreich compared

Week 10
Expanding the welfare concept (corporate welfare)
Community Development
Outline
Reforming welfare reform
Shipler and reform
Outline
Outline (Lareau)
Corporate welfare