SO 203. SOCIAL PROBLEMS
Accommodations and Academic Policies
The Value of Comparative Analysis in Evaluating Sources
APA Guidelines for citing hard copy
sources
Guidelines for citing electronic sources
Excellent sources for information on
inequality:
www.inequality.org
www.epinet.org Economic Policy Institute:
has an extensive section on the Living Wage.
www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp Institute for
Research on Poverty: University of Wisconsin.
What it takes to get along in Denver....
The Working Poor, 2004.
INFORMATION ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY &
MEDICARE
The Economic Policy Institute has a brief but thorough description of
the Social
Security System.
The Center for
Economic and Policy Research web page has links to recent articles about
Social Security and Medicare reform.
Environmental and World Hunger Issues
An analysis of President Bush's "answer" to the Kyoto
Agreement:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/feb2002/warm-f23.shtml
"The World Bank and the Forests: Here We Go Again. A Multinational Monitor editorial reveals how the World Bank changed its policy on financing forest projects in 2002. The new policy makes it much easier for corporations to destroy old-growth forests.
THE GLOBAL BANQUET: Politics of Food
Big business versus the environment and people's
health:
A.J. Chien, "Industry
vs. Precaution in Massachusetts." Znet Commentary.
Corporate power and corporate
corruption:
John
J. Neumaier, "Who Will Investigate the Investigators of the Enron
Scandal?"