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This reading explains what economic freedom is. It also explains how beneficial economic freedom can be for people.

Inequality of economic freedom in America is hurting our economy. It is becoming increasingly more difficult for small businesses to emerge and more people are finding themselves relying on various forms of welfare. Welfare is used to fix the problem of inequality, but it is only a temporary solution.

This article written by Terry Miller and Anthony B. Kim includes data collected on economic freedom across the globe since 1995.  After sharing each detailed figure, the authors go on to explain the details and effects of each one. 

Ideas for all lovers of personal and political freedom. Topics range from philosophy to economics to art to how to achieve real freedom in the modern world.

This study covers the many personal, economic, and social freedom issues facing Americans. The states are ranked for comparison.

Pros and cons in the debate as to whether prostitution should be legal. Core questions, economics, health, human trafficking and morality issues discussed.

The benefits of Economic Freedom.

Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine (FIRM) promotes the philosophy of individual rights, personal responsibility, and free market economics in health care. People have a right to chose their doctor.

The purpose of this website is for the freedom and individual rights in medicine. They are for moal and practical medicine for the citizens that pay for their own medical care in a capitalist free market.

An association of individual and organizations dedicated to building a free and peaceful world. The ISIL promotes respect for individual rights and liberties, and an open and competitive economic system based on volutary exchange and free trade.

This article is examining if there is any relation between financial freedom and racism. They used something called the world values survey to measure people tolerance of others than compute the information against their personal finances.

This article shows that education should be a basic right for all people who want it. Everyone should have the ability to get a free, good education. This article argues that this right has not been something that is basic for all but it should be.

Our nation is riddled with debt and many states have considered relaxing drug policies to help budgets.  There are some financial benefits that would come with legalizing drugs such as taxes and savings on both persecuting and housing criminals.

Gender equality is an issue that continues to not be fully archive worldwide. Peace Corps points this out and what it would mean to be equals.

This article discusses the gap in gender equality on a global level but primarily focused on women. Some of the issues that they highlighted is Education, Health, Economic and political empowerment for women.

This article describes gender equality in women's economic and political empowerment. Also, gender equality contributing to women's health and education.

Unemployment skyrocketed at the start of the pandemic. It was unexpected but so many people lost their jobs and started facing economic distress. This article focuses on the trends seen between unemployment in different categories of people.

Amidst the global pandemic, Arizona states students are failing statewide tests in both English and Math this spring with alarming numbers. Education officials had previously advised "extreme caution" in regards to making conclusions based on the number of cases. Disruptions to in-person learning during the pandemic due to the dramatic impact on student learning suggest "inferences may be invalid", according to the department. This years tests also painted a demographic split as White and Asian students passed these exams at twice as POC students. COVID-19 pandemic has had a disparate impact on communities of color, both economically and in loss of life.

That's crazy to hear Covid has had such a negative impact on students performance in school, it's really disheartening. It is a rough transition going from learning in school, then trying to teach yourself through online school in quarantine, it's definitely not for everyone.

Christos Makridis, the author of this article, through his research has discovered that raising the minimum wage does not improve the issue of inequality in America, but that it has a negative impact on the workers it attempts to help. The author explains this negative impact by giving examples such as employers reducing hours which causes a lack of skill development due to lack of hours, also employers will not be able to have many incentives for new employees. The author suggested ways for reducing inequality in the latter half of his article by giving business more freedom in determining the wages and that businesses would educate their employees in an effort to increase their profitability and thus raising the wages of their employees.

Arizona Department of Economic Security brings us a lot of information about this topic. It give us phone numbers and locations where to ask for help.

This website gave both point of views on illegal immigration. There are other categories on the page, such as, definition, core questions, and economic impact.

This article supports banning smoking in public places.  Studies show that there have been positive health and economic impacts where these bans have been implimented.

In his January 2014 State of the Union address, President Obama called for a new federal minimum wage of $10.10 an hour. The year before, in the same speech, he proposed a $9 minimum wage. This article addresses the different reasons to increase and the issues with increasing the minimum wage. it discusses how it has changed over the years and states that the original minimum wage was 25 cents an hour back in 1938. There are quite a few interesting stats in this article.

I definitely that Obamas move to raise the minimum wage has caused more problems than it has done good. It's only created a sense of working less, doing less for more pay. People don't want to work hard, get an education, or persue a career goal in order to make money. It's seems more common that people just want what's easy and what gives them the most for their own selfish desires.