8. Briefly state and justify your position on each of the following proposals:

a. Women and minorities should be paid the same wage as white males, provided the work is comparable.

b. The United States should close its boundaries to all immigration.

c. The federal government should take measures to achieve the 4 percent unemployment rate specified by the Humphrey‡Hawkins Act of 1978.

d. So-called right-to-work laws, which specify that workers who refuse to join unions cannot thereby be deprived of their jobs, should be repealed.

e. Conditions of worker health and safety should be determined by the labor market, not by government regulation.