HLST 3510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Economic Justice, The Takeaway, Child Poverty
8 May 2017
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2 major ideas discussed: the issue of poverty vs inequality. If you see the problem as only as poverty, you concern yourself with the individuals: this is demonizing people - implying that its their own fault they are in poverty. The focus on poor people plays out in the forms of programs: child benefits programs, training programs. Given the prejudice in this society: the takeaway from these programs (defacto, defacto segregation, defacto people, moral underclass discourse (mud, social integrationist discourse (sid) Focuses on individuals and what we can do to help them. Distribution of income, wealth, legislation and other things. Poverty is easier to sell and get into. When you"re dealing with issues with inequality, you"re dealing with issues of value: social justice vs economic justice. Economic justice is that everyone is free to spend (?) People who are poor are poor because they deserve it (mentioned before)
