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Written by award-winning CQ Researcher journalists, this annual collection of nonpartisan and thoroughly researched reports focuses on 16 hot-button policy issues. With reports ranging from racial profiling to prescription drug costs, the Twentieth Edition of Issues for Debate in American Public Policy promotes in-depth discussion, facilitates further research, and helps readers formulate their own positions on crucial policy issues. And because it is CQ Researcher, the policy reports are expertly researched and written, showing readers all sides of an issue. Because this annual volume comes together just months before publication, all selections are brand new and explore some of today's most significant American public policy issues, including:racial profiling, populism and party politics, student debt, the gig economy, the future of the coal industry, prescription drug costs, and much more!
Contents
ANNOTATED CONTENTSPREFACECONTRIBUTORSENVIRONMENT1. Disaster ReadinessBackgroundChronologyCurrent SituationAt Issue: Should the National Flood Insurance Program be discontinued?OutlookNotesBibliographyBUSINESS AND ECONOMY2. For-Profit PrisonsBackgroundChronologyCurrent SituationAt Issue: Should private industry play a role in prison operations?OutlookNotesBibliography3. Privatizing Government ServicesBackgroundChronologyCurrent SituationAt Issue: Should the U.S. use private capital to rebuild infrastructure?OutlookNotesBibliography4. Labor Shortage DebateBackgroundChronologyCurrent SituationAt Issue: Should employers be required to use E-Verify to avoid hiring undocumented immigrants?OutlookNotesBibliography5. Financial Services DeregulationBackgroundChronologyCurrent SituationAt Issue: Has the Dodd-Frank law been good for the country?OutlookNotesBibliography6. Affordable Housing ShortageBackgroundChronologyCurrent SituationAt Issue: Will single-family homes become less prevalent in urban areas?OutlookNotesBibliographyRIGHTS AND LIBERTIES7. Gun ViolenceBackgroundChronologyCurrent SituationAt Issue: Would arming teachers make schools safer?OutlookNotesBibliography8. Election Security and Voting RightsBackgroundChronologyCurrent SituationAt Issue: Should voters have to show a photo ID?OutlookNotesBibliography9. Christianity in AmericaBackgroundChronologyAt Issue: Should the Johnson Amendment curbing churches' political activities be repealed?Current SituationOutlookNotesBibliographySOCIAL POLICY10. Conspiracy TheoriesBackgroundChronologyCurrent SituationAt Issue: Should conspiracy theories receive First Amendment protection?OutlookNotesBibliography11. The Fight over Net NeutralityBackgroundChronologyCurrent SituationAt Issue: Is regulation necessary to ensure unfettered online access?OutlookNotesBibliography12. Education FundingBackgroundChronologyCurrent SituationAt Issue: Are teachers underpaid?OutlookNotesBibliographyHEALTH13. Worker SafetyBackgroundChronologyCurrent SituationAt Issue: Can OSHA compliance-assistance programs improve worker safety?OutlookNotesBibliographyNATIONAL SECURITY14. U.S. Trade PolicyBackgroundChronologyCurrent SituationAt Issue: Could China supplant the U.S. as the world leader in trade?OutlookNotesBibliography15. The PresidencyBackgroundChronologyCurrent SituationAt Issue: Does a U.S. president have the authority to pardon himself?OutlookNotesBibliography16. Federal-State RelationsBackgroundChronologyCurrent SituationAt Issue: Should Congress pass laws preempting state authority?OutlookNotesBibliography
