Assignment for Tuesday, Feb. 27

Finish Harrington, all the way to the end.  Get a couple of chapters into Ehrenreich.

Assignment for Thursday, Feb. 22

OK, we WILL have class.

Now then, 2 pages.

On the face of it, integration is not a source of income or a source of access to assistance.  Harrington obviously thinks that big government power and money ought to help with income and assistance.  But when it comes to racial prejudice and housing issues, he calls also for integration. 

Last week, we worried about how a strategy of integration could be a threat to the identity of a community.  Ignore those kinds of worries for a moment and try to dial in on What Harrington thinks that integration could bring--in race and in housing (and they are obviously related).  What are the evils that he thinks it would fight?  The goods that he thinks it would bring?  And do you agree?  Why?

Review those two chapters and give me your thoughts.  Bring it to class--we'll talk about it.

Arkansas Children Most Likely To Go Through Adverse Experience, Study Finds

On NPR HERE.

Automating Inequality

on NPR HERE.

Assignment for Tuesday, Feb. 20

Read, carefully, the next two chapters.  Be ready to discuss!

Universal Basic Income

An idea that rich people seem to like:  HERE.

What wage would get you out in the fields?

HERE.  And HERE.

Assignment for Tuesday, Feb. 14

OK, so have a strong working grasp of everything up to the end of Chapter 4.  There's a lot to review.

Increases in the number of "working homeless"

HERE.

Assignment for Thursday, Feb. 8

In Harrington's _The Other America_, read all prefaces and forewords and to the end of Chapter 2.

Carefully.  With notes. 

Assignment for Tuesday, Feb. 6

Finish Pimpare, including the epilogue.  Take careful notes!