2 Social work Discussion

#1

Follow the prompt below to complete your discussion post:

1. Answer each question with 2-3 clearly written sentences based on exact information from the reading and video.
   1. 1. Briefly discuss what occurred during President Obama’s visit to a prison and why he commuted the sentences of nonviolent drug offenders.
      2. Listen to President Obama give his Nobel Peace Prize speech and read the reaction to his speech. What was his position on war?

Responses to classmates’ posts will not be graded. However, feel free to further discuss this prompt.

Complete the following required reading:

• • • Chapter 15 in P. Day, and J. Schiele, A New History of Social Welfare, 7th Ed. (Boston: Pearson).

Access the following supplemental material if interested:

• • • High Court Health Care Ruling Shifts Action to States
    • Obama Visits Federal Prison, A First for a Sitting President
    • Obama Grants Clemency to 111 Prisoners; DOJ ‘Confident’ It Will Clear Backlog
    • President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
    • President Obama’s Nobel Speech
    • Reaction to President Obama’s Nobel Speech
    • Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. (New York, NY: New Press, 2010).
    • Lilly Ledbetter: Obama Signs Equal-Pay Bill into Law

#2

Follow the prompt below to complete your discussion post:

1. Answer each section of the following question with 2-3 clearly written sentences based on exact information from the module readings:
   1. 1. Considering the scope of social welfare policy discussed in textbook for this course, briefly discuss whether or not social welfare policies have overall benefitted or hindered marginalized groups in the US.
      2. Russia has used social media to interfere in elections in US and around the world. Should the US implement federal laws to ensure that social media companies such as Google, Face Book and Twitter are more transparent about “fake news” that can affect social policy? Using the above article, support your answer.
      3. Briefly discuss one of the intended or unintended consequence of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Responses to classmates’ posts will not be graded. However, feel free to further discuss this prompt.

Complete the following required reading:

• • • Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
    • Russia’s Use of “Fake News.”
    • Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
    • U.S. and International Protests after 2017 Election.