SWRK 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Minimum Wage Law, Thomas Sowell, Social Liberalism
12 Oct 2016
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Helping to bring backwards and uncivilized people into society. Natives which relates back to the foundation of residential schools. Our present is better, because of us, our creativity, drive, determination, passion, commitment and interventions . Conditions border on squalor that exist today: (examples) Three political ideologies that shape policy and social work practice: conservative: individuals responsible for their own problems. There is nothing wrong with existing social policy, and the social system overall. Reduces the gap between the rich and the poor by reconfiguring distribution of income. (ex. Increase of minimum wage slowly, universal health care, low cost or free post-secondary, increased taxation on the wealthy) **addressing the systems that create the rich and the poor** Drawing on keynesian economics: government spending can be used to increase aggregate demand, thus increasing economic activity, reducing unemployment and deflation. (the more you tax, the more money you have, the more they spend, the more the economy strives)
