Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Arturo Gonzalez and Todd Nuemann. "Learning But Not Earning? The Impact of Job Corps Training on Hispanic Youth." Economy Inquiry 48.3 (2010): 651-667. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 30 Jan. 2011. In this article Flores-Lagunes, Gonzalez, and Nuemann discuss how Local Labor Market Unemployment Rate (LUR) effect African-Americans and Hispanics more than anyone else. They believe that Job Corps (JC) helps "shield" the rest due to the fact that the LUR does not effect them as much. This article is split into five sections, each analyzing a different topic. The topics range from analyzing the JC program as a whole, to post treatment after they leave the program, and how subgroups effect gaining employment. Each section provides you with tables or graphs with statistics from, Intention to Treat (ITT) and Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE).
I can see and understand where these authors are coming from, these young adults work just as hard as the others do but do not get the same acknowledgement. The authors point out that these students all have a certain criteria they have to fit, " 16-24 yrs of age, residence in a disruptive environment, not on parole, [and] be a high school dropout or in need of additional training", which most Hispanics fit, yet they do not achieve all that they need. Flores-Lagunes and Gonzalez feel that they need to get this out since they both work in fields that deal with economy. Flores-Lagunes is an Assistant Professor for the Food and Resource Economics Department for the University of Florida, and Gonzalez is a Financial Economist for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
There are some parts where I feel this article is extremely bias. Yes I understand that the young Hispanics try very hard and do not always get as far as the others. However this economy is not at its best to be looking for jobs. People these days just can't walk in somewhere and expect to get a job because they have the right education to work there, we need to fight for it as well, and not give up just because we've heard "No" a few times. In conclusion, if I were able to ask them some questions a couple would be, "Did they take in to consideration the statistics for other races besides Hispanic and African-American?", and "Did they find any recent statistics besides the ones from 2007?".
Hi Sam,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post. Your MLA looks great; just double-check how multiple authors should be listed. I liked your summary--it gave me a pretty good idea of what your source was about. I like that you don't shy away from acronyms, but I suppose you could have simplified what was going on a little more. I had a bit of a hard time seeing where the analysis and reflection sections came in then left off; part of this can be solved by paragraphing. Another part could be helped by digging into the bias issue a little more--it would have been awesome if you had given a specific example and given your thoughts on it.
Great work overall though.
Hey Sam,
ReplyDeleteI checked on OWL and when you cite more than one author for a book you simply put a comma in between each source. So for your source it would be, Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso, Gonzalez, Arturo, and Nuemann, Todd. Other than that I believe your citation is correct.
I like how you went through and talked about how each of the authors are credible and how they know about the subject that they wrote the article about. I think that you could write a little more about how this article relates to what we are going to be doing in our service learning with Centennial Job Corps. A strategy you could possibly use for this quote or paraphrase the source to help you understand it a bit better and to help you connect it to what we're doing better. Besides that everything looked pretty good.
Actually Sam (Wilson), the MLA for multiple authors is "Last, First, First Last, and First Last." Tricky, huh?
ReplyDeleteAlso, try to follow what you told Sam--in your response try to give specific examples (What specific phrase or idea did you like, and why?, for example) and tie in to other things we're learning about (Writing Analytically, Forwarding/Countering, etc.). Good work though.