Summarizing What are the major U.S. income security programs, and who do they benefit?

What changes has U.S. agricultural policy undergone over time?

Understanding* Continuity and Change How has U.S. education policy changed over time?

Determining Cause and Effect What were the effects of the Great Depression on income security and health care programs?

Explaining What are the responsibilities, duties, and obligations of citizenship?

Evaluating Information, Arguments, and Counterarguments Go online to find primary and secondary sources advocating for and against fracking. Identify the bias and propaganda in each source. Then analyze the validity of the information and arguments presented. Take a position and prepare to defend it in a class debate.

Problem-Solving Identify a problem you have faced as a consumer. The problem might involve product quality, product availability, or service issues. Gather information about the problem and devise a list of solutions including possible government regulations. What are advantages and disadvantages of these government regulations or other solutions for businesses and consumers? Select the best solution. How you would implement it? How effective would it be?

Analyzing Select one of the policy areas in your completed graphic organizer and write an essay that analyzes current policy issues and debates.

Summarizing Use your completed graphic organizer to summarize the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act of $1965$ and the Immigration Reform and Control Act of $1986$. How did these laws bring about changes in American culture?

Analyzing Select one of the policy areas from your completed graphic organizer and analyze the current policies and programs that address that policy area.

Use your completed graphic organizer to create an annotated time line of key business and labor legislation in the United States.

Explaining What is the significance of citizen suits in U.S. environmental policy?

Describing Use your completed graphic organizer to create a slideshow explaining the work of three of the government agencies described in this lesson.

"But when workers get higher wages and more civilized working conditions through the free market, when they get them by firms competing with one another for the best workers, by workers competing with one another for the best jobs, those higher wages are at nobody's expense. They can only come from higher productivity, greater capital investment, more widely diffused skills. The whole pie is bigger, there is more for the worker, but there's also more for the employer, the investor, the consumer and even the tax collector." -Milton Friedman, Free to Choose: A Personal Statement(Mariner Books, $1990$)

Drawing Inferences Based on the views expressed in this passage, would Friedman support or oppose right-to-work laws? Explain.