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What Should we be Doing with Welfare Policy and Why?

For Week 6 you will find two categories.  Select one category, then post and concisely defend your view.  You may post to both categories, but are required to only select one for your initial post. Be careful to identify the positive reasons for your normative position. Read and respond to your fellow student’s postings at will.  The categories to choose from are:

What Should we be Doing with Welfare Policy and Why?
You are asked whether current antipoverty policy meets three generally accepted goals of helping, preserving work incentives, and minimizing cost and what changes you would favor and why.

How Has Discrimination Affected Economic Efficiency and Wages?
You are asked to tell us what effect discrimination you have observed has caused in a particular market for wages or prices. Ultimately, tell us what you think we should be doing with anti-discrimination policy and defend your answer with positive analysis.