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LEARNING ACTIVITY WORKSHEET - Week Two
1. Federalism:
A. One advantage to a national policy that must be implemented by one agency of the federal bureaucracy.

One advantage of a national policy is the “Clean Air Act” it is a policy that protects, maintains and save our environmental air quality. Air pollution in the United States in the 1960’s was very poor and one of the main contributors were the petroleum refineries. Air pollution is collectively responsible for more than 70,000 deaths each year in the United States (Ozymy, Jarrett, 2011). Communities living in close proximity to petroleum refineries are especially vulnerable to pollution-related health problems, as they are routinely subjected to harmful air emissions. This policy’s advantages are making and keeping our air as clean as possible by regulating routine emissions.

B. One disadvantage to a national policy that must be implemented by one agency of the federal bureaucracy. …show more content…

These regulations led to a sectoral shift in production and employment away from newly regulated, polluting sectors. The “Clean Air Act” of the 1970s led to a loss of more than 500,000 jobs in regulated sectors relative to unregulated sectors. However, it is difficult to interpret the effects of job loss without knowing the long-run earnings losses associated with these job transitions (Walker, 2013). It is a beneficial act due to the lives saved but the number of people that it affected in the work force was substantial. Workers had to look for new jobs and in many cases new

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