http://www.wnyc.org/radiorookies/sohodoor/star_transcript.html
Listen to the above story. I suggest downloading it to your ipod. If you cannot listen to it, read it.
WNYC RADIO ROOKIE
First Broadcast: February 27, 2008
SHIRLEY “STAR” DIAZ
“Radio Rookie Shirley Diaz is on the brink of aging out of the foster care system when she turns 21 this fall. Many young people face huge challenges when they leave the system. And a disproportionate number of New York City’s 17,000 kids in foster care struggle with homelessness at some point in their lives. Braced for adulthood, Shirley—whose nickname is Star—looks to herself for support. ”
FDR and the New Deal is the starting point in American history for welfare. Your web log will answer the following questions:
a) What is a definition of welfare? Give examples of the kinds of welfare Diaz has been on or may go on.
b) From FDR’s perspective, why is welfare important to keeping the entire Nation healthy, not just the people who get it?
c) Do welfare programs merely create increased dependency? Should they be abolished altogether? Or should additional funds be invested to develop more comprehensive job-training and childcare programs that might reduce the number of chronic welfare recipients?
