project topic

You are to pick a “special topic” from the group project topics – other then the one you worked on in your group – read the article and complete the Briefing form.  You may either use an article from the “NEWS ARTICLES” menu or you may research a current article on your own under these topics.

Reminder, the Briefing forms can be found in HANDOUTS from the menu.

• 1. What are the National Debt, Debt Ceiling and Budget Deficit.  4/13/2017.  US News     (There are several sources to link to from this cite).
  https://www.usnews.com/news/economy/articles/2017-04-13/what-are-the-national-debt-debt-ceiling-and-budget-deficit
  2. Budget Deficit: How It Affects the Economy.  Why the government Can Run a Budget Deficit and You Can’t. Kimberly Amadeo.  up.12/22/2016
  https://www.thebalance.com/budget-deficit-definition-and-how-it-affects-the-economy-3305820
  3.  U.S.Government Spending .com
  http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.html

  4. Eight Gimmicks to Look Out For This Budget Season.  Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.  May 4, 2017.
  http://www.crfb.org/papers/eight-gimmicks-look-out-budget-season

  5. Congress passes stopgab bill to avoid Government shut down. Politico.  April 28, 2017
  http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/28/house-passes-stopgap-bill-to-avoid-government-shutdown-237748

  6.    “Congress Passed a Budget Deal. Now What?”.  Center for American Progress
  https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/budget/news/2015/11/02/124733/congress-passed-a-budget-deal-now-what/

• Cyber SecurityAttached Files:
  •  cyber strategy 2013 (2.5 MB)
  • 1.  Trump’s Cybersecurity Executive Order is a Good First Step.  Bob Ackerman. May 13, 2017
    https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/13/trumps-cybersecurity-executive-order-is-a-good-first-step/
    2.  Cyber Video
    http://www.csee.umbc.edu/2014/05/primer-on-cybersecurity-and-public-policy-for-nonspecialists/

    3. The Global Cyberattack And the Need to Revist Healthcare Cybersecurity.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lessons-learned-the-global-cyberattack-the-need_us_591a1ac5e4b086d2d0d8d1ed?section=us_technology
    4. Paris Attacks Show the Danger of Cell Phone Encryption, Says, Bratton, Politico
    http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2015/11/8582950/paris-attacks-shows-danger-cell-phone-encryption-says-bratton See Also attached PDF –
    5.  GAO  Cybersecurity National Strategy, Roles and Responsibilities Need To Be Better Defined and More Effectively Implemented.
    Why the Government Keeps Getting Hacked (Washington Post)
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/07/10/this-is-why-the-government-keeps-getting-hacked/?postshare=4341448383397188&tid=ss_mail

    6. Primer on Cybersecurity and Public Policy”
    http://www.csee.umbc.edu/2014/05/primer-on-cybersecurity-and-public-policy-for-nonspecialists
    7. Federal Cyber strategic Plan Released – Federal Timeshttp://www.federaltimes.com/story/government/cybersecurity/2015/10/30/fed-cybersecurity-strategy/74883890/

  • 8. “US Not Prepared to Defend Power Grid from Cyber Attacks”  Huffington Post 
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/us-not-prepared-to-defend-power-grid-from-cyberattacks_us_56780a3ce4b0b958f657214f
• Economic Development / InfrastructureAttached Files:
  •  Re-ImaginingInfratrsucture copy 2.pdf (299.606 KB)
  • 1.  Re-imagining Infrastructure, Mark Gerencser
    Re-ImaginingInfratrsucture copy 2.pdf

    2. Economic Development vs. Economic Growth.
    http://www.diffen.com/difference/Economic_Development_vs_Economic_Growth
    (This article and PowerPoint presentation were recently published by the US Department of Transportation Department on the problems of traffic and its relation to economic development and a short TED video on the difference between economic development and economic growth.  The DOT articles resulted in the designation of CSUSB as a national Center of Innovation.  They are posted in Blackboard.  The link to the TED video is below)

• Education
  1. Policy Briefs on Student Loan Borrower Assistance.
  http://www.studentloanborrowerassistance.org/advocacy/policy-briefs/
  2.  National Policy Agenda to Reduce the Burden of Student Debt.  The Institute for College Access and Success.  October 2016.
  http://ticas.org/initiative/student-debt-policy-agenda

  3.  Betrayed by the Dream Factory http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2016/01/student_loan_crisis_at_its_ugliest_i_graduated_and_found_out_i_owe_200_000.html

  4.  “America’s growing student-loan-debt crisis”  Market Watch
  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/americas-growing-student-loan-debt-crisis-2016-01-15

  5. The Court Ruling That Could End the Student Loan Crisis;  Fiscal Times.
  http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2016/04/01/Court-Ruling-Could-End-Student-Loan-Crisis

  6.  What Unified Government and Electoral Politics might mean for education policy.  Brookings
  https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2016/11/14/what-unified-government-and-electoral-politics-might-mean-for-education-policy/

• Energy – Renewable Energy Sources1. What are Alternative Energy Sources?
  http://www.conserve-energy-future.com/AlternativeEnergySources.php
  2. Energy Policy of the US –Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_policy_of_the_United_States

  3. Hyperloop – Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop

• Financial Institutions1.  Wall Street needs a change
  http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/19/two-cheers-dodd-frank-act-wall-street-culture-radical-change
  2. White House Web Page
  https://www.whitehouse.gov/economy/middle-class/dodd-frank-wall-street-reform
  3. Dodd Frank Problems
  http://www.wsj.com/articles/dodd-franks-nasty-double-whammy-1437692851
  4. “Financial Regulation:  A Primer on the Dodd-Frank Act”
  https://research.stlouisfed.org/pageone-economics/uploads/newsletter/2011/201105_ClassroomEdition.pdf
  5. Dodd-Frank, Community Banks, and the Impact on US Cities and Towns.  Forbes.http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2015/07/24/dodd-frank-community-bank-decline-and-the-effect-on-u-s-cities-and-towns/ – 579c50cb269d 6. Bernie Sanders v Alan Greenspan  – two videos. (Sanders charges and Greenspan’s admission)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJaW32ZTyKE ;    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWen53eqmJo
  7. History of the Federal Reserve.  Federal Reserve Education.org
  https://www.federalreserveeducation.org/about-the-fed/history
• Health Care1. Video:  Bernie Sanders Ted Cruz Debate on CNN . Real Clear Politics
  http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/02/07/full_replay_bernie_sanders_vs_ted_cruz_debate_obamacare.html _
  2.  PRO/Con on several Health Care issues. (Obama care.  Rising costs etc.)

  http://healthcarereform.procon.org
  3.  “A Guide to the Affordable Health Care Act”http://www.politico.com/obamacare-guide/ 4.  Is the Affordable Health Care Act Working?  NY Times;http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/27/us/is-the-affordable-care-act-working.html?_r=0 – / 5. Obama Care Facts: Facts on the Affordable Care Act
  http://obamacarefacts.com/obamacare-facts/ 6. Washington Post Challenge: Affordable Health Care Act Survives Supreme Court
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/obamacare-survives-supreme-court-challenge/2015/06/25/af87608e-188a-11e5-93b7-5eddc056ad8a_story.html

• Immigration
  1.  U.S. Immigration Policy.  Council on Foreign Relations. August, 2009.
  http://www.cfr.org/immigration/us-immigration-policy/p20030
  2.  Immigration ProCon.  Should The Government Allow Immigrants Who Are Here Illegally to Become U.S. Citizens?
  http://immigration.procon.org
  3.  The Myth of The US Immigration Crises – from  the Bloomberg View.  Feb. 21, 2017
  https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-21/the-myth-of-the-u-s-immigration-crisis

  4.  How Trump’s “Merit Based” Immigration system might work”  New York Times
  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/us/politics/immigration-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
  5.   Immigration Reform – Council on Foreign relations
  http://www.cfr.org/immigration/us-immigration-debate/p11149 6.   A Guide to Immigration Action and Executive Action” Immigration Policy Center http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/special-reports/guide-immigration-accountability-executive-action

  7. “Supreme Court to Rule on Obama Immigration Orders”  Politico 
  http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/supreme-court-to-rule-on-obama-immigration-orders-217860

• International Trade / Globalization1.  Globalization’s Ill effects have been wildly exaggerated. Robert Samuelson. May 14, 2017
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/globalizations-ill-effects-have-been-wildly-exaggerated/2017/05/14/06d12334-3724-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html?utm_term=.6870774a5bae

  2.  International Trade Agreements.  Douglas A Irwin. 2008  The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.

  http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/InternationalTradeAgreements.html

  3. NAFTA’S Winners and Losers.  David Floyd. May 18, 2017.
  http://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/north-american-free-trade-agreement.asp

  4.   What a Trump presidency means for U.S. and global climate policy. Nathan Hultman, Nov. 9, 2016
  https://www.brookings.edu/blog/planetpolicy/2016/11/09/what-a-trump-presidency-means-for-u-s-and-global-climate-policy/?utm_campaign=Global+Economy+and+Development&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=37568123

  5.  Trump, Trade and Seucurity, a way forward? Joshua P Meltzer  Nov 14, 2016
  https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2016/11/14/trump-trade-and-security-a-way-forward/?utm_campaign=Global+Economy+and+Development&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=37568123

  6.  Urban governance in the 21st Century: Innovating solutions  (Podcast) Nov 9, 2016
  https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/urban-governance-in-the-21st-century-innovating-solutions/?utm_campaign=Global+Economy+and+Development&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=37568123

  7.  The TPP is dead, long live the TPP. Mireya Solis, Nov 11, 2016
  https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2016/11/11/the-tpp-is-dead-long-live-the-tpp/?utm_campaign=Brookings+Brief&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=37587783

  8.  Summary of Trade Issues
  https://www.iisd.org/business/issues/trade.aspx  9.   Everything You Need to Know About the  TPP; Washington Post;    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/12/11/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-trans-pacific-partnership/  10.   The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will increase trade, but will it undermine democracy, public services, and the environment?  https://netivist.org/debate/tpp-pros-and-cons

• National Debt1. What are the National Debt, Debt Ceiling and Budget Deficit.  4/13/2017.  US News     (There are several sources to link to from this cite).
  https://www.usnews.com/news/economy/articles/2017-04-13/what-are-the-national-debt-debt-ceiling-and-budget-deficit
  2. Budget Deficit: How It Affects the Economy.  Why the government Can Run a Budget Deficit and You Can’t. Kimberly Amadeo.  up.12/22/2016
  https://www.thebalance.com/budget-deficit-definition-and-how-it-affects-the-economy-3305820
  3.  U.S.Government Spending .com
  http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.html

  4.  Just facts.com  National Debt.  A resource for independent thinkers.
  http://www.justfacts.com/nationaldebt.asp
  5. “Understanding the National Deficit and Debt: A Primer”;
  http://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/Deficit101_OFS_Demos.pdf
  3. GAO – Understanding the National Debt:
  http://www.gao.gov/fiscal_outlook/understanding_federal_debt/overview
  6. National Debt or Federal Deficit? What’s the Difference?
  http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/federalbudgetprocess/a/debt-vs-deficit.htm