Job loss in our community.
Victor Alterizio
Forest Grove Middle School
Project Citizen Term Paper
Dr. Fullman
January 12, 2010
JOB LOSS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION……………………………………………………..…..2 INTERVIEW……………………………………………………………………...2
GATHERING DATA…………………………………………………………………….3 IN FLORIDA………………………………………………………………….….3 IN ST. LUCIE COUNTY………………………………………………………...3
EXISTING POLICIES….…………………………………………………………….….4 EXAMINING ALTERNATIVE POLICIES……………………………………..5 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES TO CHANGES IN POLICY…….6 PEOPLE OR GROUPS THAT SUPPORT CHANGES IN THE POLICY…7
PROPOSING A PUBLIC POLICY…………………………………………………….8
DEVELOPING AN ACTION PLAN………………..…………………………………..9
DRAWING THE PANEL DISPLAY…………………………………………………..10
DOCUMENTATION………………………………………………………….FOLDER
JOB LOSS IN OUR COMMUNITY. I chose job loss in our community, as my topic because I feel this is an important issue at this time and day that needs to be addressed. In Port St. Lucie this is a problem but it is not the only county dealing with this problem. This problem faces the whole state of Florida and pretty much our whole great nation of America. This is a very important issue to most people in America right now. The person’s name I interviewed was Veronica. She did not wish to share her last name with our class. Veronica has been unemployed before. She knows first hand how everything works during the unemployment period. She has given me her views and opinions on a couple of questions dealing with this problem. I gave her my topic and asked her if she thought this was an important topic in our community. She then replied by saying that she did, so I continued by asking why she thought it was important. Veronica said, “…Because when people are unemployed it leads to other things like poverty which then leads to crimes like stealing or suicides.” When I asked if she thought