I. More on Economic restructuringa. The older you get, the less marketable you are for jobsi. Not only have you lost your initial identity with the loss of your job, you are now unable to form a new oneb. It is estimated that our generation will change jobs 10 timesi. The average college-educated person is making 17K more per year and is 4x less likely to become unemployedc. 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 securityi. Now, it’s about equal between white and blue collar workersII. Social Upheavala. The fabric of our society and our families is deterioratingi. Divorce Rate, single parenthood1. Oklahoma is the 4th worst in the nation2. And yet is in the top 5 most religious states3. 80% of all children in Washington DC are born into single-parent familiesa. 15% are born into no-parent familiesi. both parents vanishb. usually the grandparents take care of the child, or they are put into foster carec. 1 out of every 2 males that you might meet walking down the street in Washington DC have served time in prisoni. result of unstable familiesd. 8x as likely to go on welfaree. 5x as likely not to graduate from high schooli. those that don’t finish are 6x as likely to go into the welfare system and to be incarceratedii. Top 4 in children growing up in poverty1. Something like 200,000 children wake up without enough food to eatiii. 13,000 homeless in Cleveland Countyiv. ~ 30,000 are hungryv. Of countries not going through a war, the United States has the highest crime rate in the worldIII. So what do we do?a. “Boystown”i. Father Flannigan(sp) was very loving and doting on all the boys and invested in their livesii. Hundreds of boys grew up and accomplished great things in their lives because of boystowniii. Newt Gingrich1. 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 there2. Empower the welfare department to take children from their families and put them in these orphanagesb. Should the government have the power to decide who is in a suitable or unsuitable home? Aside from being in physical dangeri. That’s a lot of power to the governmentc. FDR said that welfare is the opium of the peoplei. Gives people a check to be lazyii. Instead proposed the New Deal1. Government employed you if you couldn’t get a job (WPA)2. Trained people if they had no skillsIV. Welfare Reforma. Gave people on welfare a job paying them 20% more, offered bus service, child careb. Federal government originally said they couldn’t do that, but the law has been changed nowP SC 1113 1st Edition Lecture 8 Outline of Last Lecture I. How do you turn information into raw knowledge?II. China’s Cultural RevolutionIII. 3 Elements that Cause Our National DebtIV. Economic RestructuringOutline of Current Lecture I. Economic Insecuritya. Unemployment affects blue and white collar workersII. Social Upheavala. Breakdown of traditional familiesb. High school dropout ratesc. Rate of imprisonmentd. Loss of good teachers in public schoolsIII. Potential Solutionsa. Government run orphanagesb. WPA type programc. Job training program d. Government job subsidies to employersCurrent LectureThese 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 restructuringa. The older you get, the less marketable you are for jobsi. 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 workersII. Social Upheavala. The fabric of our society and our families is deterioratingi. Divorce Rate, single parenthood1. Oklahoma is the 4th worst in the nation2. And yet is in the top 5 most religious states3. 80% of all children in Washington DC are born into single-parent familiesa. 15% are born into no-parent familiesi. both parents vanish b. usually the grandparents take care of the child, or they are put into foster carec. 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 familiesd. 8x as likely to go on welfaree. 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 incarceratedii. Top 4 in children growing up in poverty1. Something like 200,000 children wake up without enough food to eatiii. 13,000 homeless in Cleveland Countyiv. ~ 30,000 are hungry v. 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 livesii. Hundreds of boys grew up and accomplished great things in their lives because of boystowniii. Newt Gingrich1. 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 there2. Empower the welfare department to take children from their families and put them in these orphanagesb. 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 peoplei. 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 skillsIV. Welfare Reforma. Gave people on welfare a job paying them 20% more, offered bus service, child careb. Federal government originally said they couldn’t do that, but the law has been changed nowV. Are people going to tear up/vandalize something they