Diana De La Cruz Guadalupe Corral P.3 5.16.12

1. Diana De La Cruz Guadalupe Corral P.3 5.16.12

2. 9 Economic Principles • 1. People choose • 2. Every choice has a cost • 3. Benefit/cost analysis is useful • 4. Incentives matter • 5. Exchange benefits the traders • 6. Markets work with competition, information, incentives, and property rights • 7. Skills and knowledge influence income • 8. Monetary and fiscal policies affect people’s choices • 9. Government policies have benefits and costs

3. A1. Fla. Court To Rule: Can A Lawyer Be Undocumented? • This article is about a young man who came from Mexico at the age of 9 legally but over stayed his visa. He got through school being an excellent student and even got through college on full scholarships. • “Every action has a cause” • “People choose”

4. A2. Why Do Terrorists So Often Go For Planes? • This article talks about why terrorists often go for planes instead of soft easy to get targets. Specialists think they do it because that's what they know how to do best. It’s easier for the terrorists to get a bomb on to a plane than finding a place already in the U.S and throwing it from there. • “People choose” • “Every action has a cause” • “Incentives matter” • “ Skills and knowledge influence income”

5. A3. Should Parents Be Able To Sue For 'Wrongful Birth'? • The Article talks about making a law that prevent parents from suing the doctors for failing to tell them about fetal problems. This law would mean that the doctors could withhold information concerning their unborn child so the mother won’t have an abortion. • “People choose” • “Every action has a cause” • “Benefit/ Cost analysis is useful”

6. A4. Obama Lures Donors with a Hollywood Sweepstakes • Obama along with George Clooney are throwing a fundraiser to raise money. It will be a sweepstakes since they feel like that is more exciting because the person engages and wants to pay attention. The winner will be able to go to Obama and Clooney's event. People will have to choose to donate money to enter the sweepstake. This money will go to the Obama Victory fund along other democratic committees. • “Benefit/ Cost analysis is useful” • “Incentives matter” • “Exchange benefits the traders “ • “People Choose”

7. A5. Family Cost • Saving money for college is tough, having to pay health care in an old age. • Parents also may need money for their health assistances. • It is tough to those families that already have a child attending to college, have another second child attend to college becomes more expense and pay double the tuition. • Many college students and parents end up in a huge debt on loans

8. A6.Food Stamps • Past few years people use food stamps, average of 44 million people used food stamp. People that are unemployed look for assistance for food stamp, the economy has taken a huge hit and so has higher education and don’t have opportunities for jobs. A huge number of people with graduate degrees who have apply food stamps.

9. A7. Planned Parenthood • But Texas is going a step further, with a law that eliminates funding for women's health clinics that either associate with abortion providers or advocate for abortion rights. • Texas already cut its support statewide for women's health clinics by two-thirds in 2011, eliminating access to family planning services for nearly 300,000 poor and working-class women. • But for abortion opponents, the issue is not about money but about keeping Planned Parenthood out of the Texas Women's Health Program, which provides services to low-income women.

10. A8.U.S. Funding Of HIV/AIDS Fight Overseas Carries Other Benefits • U.S. government spending to fight HIV/AIDS in developing countries is also preventing death from other diseases, a new study finds. • Some experts worry the billions of dollars the United States spends to treat people with HIV in poor countries may crowd out prevention and treatment of other illnesses. • Deaths from all causes dropped nearly 20 percent over five years in nine African countries