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(Answered) POLI330N Week 1 Assignment: Current Event-Local Issue

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Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

Instructions
Find an article in your local newspaper about a local policy issue that affects you. For example, an article concerning your county’s decision to privatize your trash collection service. Summarize the article and explain how this issue affects you. Is the article neutral? Why or why not? How might you influence this policy in the future?

Be sure to include a scanned copy of the article in your submission in addition to citations. There are several free scannable apps on the market such as Scannable. If printing is an obstacle, you may include a hyperlink to the article. However, if the link breaks or can not be accessed the burden falls on you to produce that article or to risk losing points.

Articles may not be more than one month old.

Writing Requirements (APA format)

  • Length: 3 full  pages (not including title page or references page)
  • 1-inch margins
  • Double spaced
  • 12-point Times New Roman font
  • Title page
  • References page

Grading
This activity will be graded based on the  Current Event Grading Rubric.

Course Outcomes (CO): 1

Due Date: By 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday

 

 Solution

Public Works Program in NYC Review

            The article for analysis “Could a public works program save New York City’s Economy?” by Samar Khurshid tells about the new policy aimed at reducing joblessness in New York City. As around a million people are out of jobs due to the coronavirus, the revenues are falling. According to the article, the officials and experts suggest that large-scale public works and jobs projects are the solutions to such a problem by creating workplaces to rebuild the post-pandemic city.

The program lies in creating menial job places for people who lost employment due to COVID. The New York City Mayor, Bill de Blasio, intended to create jobs to complete infrastructure projects with a four-year capital program of $67.2 billion, which aims to create 100,000 jobs which pay $50,000 annually by 2027 (Khurshid, 2020)…..Kindly click the icon below to purchase and access the full sample at only $5