Economics – 12/05/19
I. Bellwork:
Analyze the cartoon below completing the 4-Square below.
II. Objective:
- Demonstrate understanding of written, spoken, or visual information by restating, paraphrasing, summarizing, critiquing, or composing a personal response.
- Analyze the ways in which governments generate revenue on consumption, income and wealth and use that revenue for public services and social welfare.
- Discuss, identify, and analyze the ways in which federal, state, and local governments spend revenue for public services and social welfare.
III. Discussion
A. Expenditures
- Kristin Tate Blasts Pork Barrel Spending on Fox News
- Waste Book Government Pork Spending
- Stossel Real or Fake?
- Congress, Earmarks, and Pork Barrel Spending
B. Chapter-10PPT-1– Copy (For Next Quiz)
IV. Classwork
A, Page 265 Q&A #2-6
B. Earmarks explosion: Republicans could set record with big spending on pork barrel project
- What is happening with government earmarks in 2018 compared to 2017?
- Explain 2 earmarks mentioned in the article.
- Why are earmarks a problem?
- Define what an earmark is.
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