SOWK 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Learning Technology Partners, Working Poor, Financial Literacy
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Anita and jose rodriquez and their two children are living in a shelter. Both parents work at a poultry processing plant, making minimum wages. Their car is old and unreliable, making living out of town, which is cheaper, unrealistic. They are in debt, working hard, and homeless. There is a family that is unable to sustain itself. How do policy problems become policy priorities? wage rates, families, debt, loans, difficulty of getting money when you don"t. Actors frame have savings or a credit rating. Pay day loans emerge? policies in different ways. Federal, provincial, municipal, international (cid:498)scale is the level or levels of responsibility in a policy area. Uk debate about payday loans tends to talk about it as a social welfare and. Usa has restricted the interest rate that can be charged. Some public debates in the us have argued that the post office should start moral issue lending and providing basic banking services.