What is the common economic issue or policy debate

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One starting point for your studies is to begin identifying the key economic issues and policy debates. Take a look at the articles from the last year's courses, Find three that are about the same economic issue or policy.

here is the articles:

Can the minimum wage be too high? (NY Times debate)

Growth has been good for decades. So why hasn't poverty declined? (NY Times)

ECB plots strategy for staving off deflation (NY Times)

Did the bank bailout do enough for the country? (NY Times debate)

To lift the poor, you can't avoid taxing the rich (Jared Bernstein)

Springtime for bankers (Paul Krugman)

Why Tim Geithner is wrong on homeowner debt relief (Wash Post)

Congress takes from the poor, gives to the corporate rich (Huff Post)

Five dirty secrets about the US economy (Harvard Business Review)

How to shrink inequality (Robert Reich)

The great recession: links to slides (Krugman)

The story of the recovery in 15 charts (Wonkblog)

Why economists are finally taking inequality seriously (Financial Times)

Liquidity preference, loanable funds, and Niall Ferguson (Paul Krugman)

Why economics failed (Paul Krugman)

Don't be fooled by the jobs report (The Week)

US economy barely grew in first quarter (NY Times)

Janet Yellen's 3 questions for the economy (The Week)

You're getting hosed on your taxes (Robert Reich)

Should drug deals and prostitution be included in GDP (The Week)

Looking at some corporate tax loopholes ordinary citizens may envy (NY Times)

Is there a savings glut? (The Week)

After the jobs report, a look at three critical labor market trends (Jared Bernstein)

Income equality: a search for consequences (NY Times)

Argument for financial transactions tax regains footing (NY Times)

Is our focus on economic growth hurting employment? (The Week)

Hypocritical tax cuts (NY Times)

We're not #1! We're not #1! (NY Times)

The wealth gap in America is growing, too (NY Times)

Ryan's last budget proposal would slash $5 trillion over the next decade (Wash Post)

Paul Ryan rehashes and old Social Security lie--at your expense (LA Times)

The trillions of dollars US corporations are hoarding overseas (The Atlantic)

Tax holiday for overseas corporate profits would... (CBPP)

Jobs and skills and zombies (Paul Krugman)

Who the job creators really are (Jared Bernstein)

Raise taxes on rich to reward true job creators (Bloomberg)

Who cares about the value of work? (Wash Post)

A nation of takers? (NY Times)

The story of the recession, as told through 8 beautiful Atlanta Fed graphics (Wash Post)

5 reasons to consider a no-strings-attached, basic income of all Americans (Salon)

What if economic growth is no longer possible in the 21st century? (The Week)

Obama was right: to boost the economy, spread the wealth (Wonkblog)

Conservatives defend inequality out of self-interest--nothing more (The Week)

When the scientist is also a philosopher (Greg Mankiw)

America's underappreciated entrepreneur: the federal government (NY Times)

The right's new "welfare queens": the middle class (New Yorker)

Type up a brief mini-essay addressing all of the following:

What is the common economic issue or policy debate these three articles are addressing? Is this still relevant today?

Are the authors making policy recommendations, or criticizing some policy ideas? What, specifically?

What will you need to learn about macroeconomics in order to more fully understand these issues or policies?

Organize your writing into a coherent whole.

Include complete citations for all of the articles.

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