P SC 1113 1st Edition Lecture 8 Outline of Last Lecture I How do you turn information into raw knowledge II China s Cultural Revolution III 3 Elements that Cause Our National Debt IV Economic Restructuring Outline of Current Lecture I Economic Insecurity a Unemployment affects blue and white collar workers II Social Upheaval a Breakdown of traditional families b High school dropout rates c Rate of imprisonment d Loss of good teachers in public schools III Potential Solutions a Government run orphanages b WPA type program c Job training program d Government job subsidies to employers Current Lecture These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute I More on Economic restructuring a The older you get the less marketable you are for jobs i Not only have you lost your initial identity with the loss of your job you are now unable to form a new one b It is estimated that our generation will change jobs 10 times i The average college educated person is making 17K more per year and is 4x less likely to become unemployed c In the past if you asked if someone was worried about losing their job and economic stability blue collar workers had a much higher anxiety about job security i Now it s about equal between white and blue collar workers II Social Upheaval a The fabric of our society and our families is deteriorating i Divorce Rate single parenthood ii iii iv v 1 Oklahoma is the 4th worst in the nation 2 And yet is in the top 5 most religious states 3 80 of all children in Washington DC are born into single parent families a 15 are born into no parent families i both parents vanish b usually the grandparents take care of the child or they are put into foster care c 1 out of every 2 males that you might meet walking down the street in Washington DC have served time in prison i result of unstable families d 8x as likely to go on welfare e 5x as likely not to graduate from high school i those that don t finish are 6x as likely to go into the welfare system and to be incarcerated Top 4 in children growing up in poverty 1 Something like 200 000 children wake up without enough food to eat 13 000 homeless in Cleveland County 30 000 are hungry Of countries not going through a war the United States has the highest crime rate in the world III So what do we do a Boystown i Father Flannigan sp was very loving and doting on all the boys and invested in their lives ii Hundreds of boys grew up and accomplished great things in their lives because of boystown iii Newt Gingrich 1 Said that we should build hundreds of orphanage type towns Boystown Girlstown so that children whose parents don t care about them don t invest in their future or their education and they could go to these towns and grow up there 2 Empower the welfare department to take children from their families and put them in these orphanages b Should the government have the power to decide who is in a suitable or unsuitable home Aside from being in physical danger i That s a lot of power to the government c FDR said that welfare is the opium of the people i Gives people a check to be lazy ii Instead proposed the New Deal 1 Government employed you if you couldn t get a job WPA 2 Trained people if they had no skills IV Welfare Reform a Gave people on welfare a job paying them 20 more offered bus service child care b Federal government originally said they couldn t do that but the law has been changed now V Are people going to tear up vandalize something they built VI