1. Economic and Employment Issues
Source: Odd Stuff Magazine

2. Should College Athletes Be Allowed to Form and Join Labor Unions?
College Athletes Players Association (CAPA)
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
Source: Odd Stuff Magazine

3. Capitalism (Free Enterprise or Free Market Economic Model)
Private Ownership of Companies
Pursuit of Profit
Competition for Profit
Pros: competition benefits consumers, employees, and drives innovation
Cons: competition harms consumers, employees, and encourages social inequality

4. Socialism (Planned Economic Model)
Government Controls Economic Industries
Profit is Illegal
Competition is Illegal
Pros: government maintains social equality through its control over economic production
Cons: people are subjected to economic regulations

5. Mixed Economies are the Global Norm Globalization of Capitalism
Free Trade Agreements
Transnational Corporations
Offshoring and Outsourcing
Executive Compensation
-Data
Automation
Median Income
Consumption and Debt
Labor Unions
Worker Stress
Source: Odd Stuff Magazine

12. Unemployment January 2018 – Bureau of Labor Statistics
Total 4.1%
Asians 3.0%
Whites 3.5%
Hispanics 5.0%
Blacks 7.7%
“I will never complain about my job again” (Odd Stuff Magazine).

13. Labor Participation – Fortune Magazine
January Year 2001
62.7% %
-Discouraged workers not seeking employment
-Opioid crisis
-Video gaming among millennial males not interested in employment
-Millennials pursuing higher education
-Increase in disability rates in poor areas (some blame abuses by unskilled workers)

14. Consumption and Debt
About four out of 10 Americans said they had enough in savings to cover a surprise $500 expense
21% said they would rely on a credit card
20% said they’d cut back on other expenses
11% said they’d turn to family or friends for the money
Source: Durden, Zero Hedge, 2017

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