Public Policy

Policy Topics

• Budget and Debt

• Poverty

• Crime

• Environment

• Social Security

• Health Care

• Macroeconomics

Federal Budget

National Debt

• Problems

• Causes

• Solutions

• Trade-offs

Poverty

• Problems

• Causes

• Solutions

• Trade-offs

Crime

• Problems

• Causes

• Solutions

• Trade-offs

Environment

• Clean Air Act (1990)

• Clean Water Act (1974)

• Environmental Impact Statements

Social Security

• Purpose

• PAYGO

• Demographics

• Beneficiaries

• Options

Health Care

• Medicare

• Medicaid

• Private Sector

Macroeconomics

• Scarcity• Exchange• Money• Schools of Macroeconomic

– Keynesianism– Monetarism– Classical– Supply side

Macroeconomic Tools

• Fiscal policy– The Laffer Curve

• Monetary policy