For this assignment, you are asked to research reliable local and state sources (newspapers or magazines) in an effort to find various economic issues impacting the Mobile or Baldwin counties.

Your assignment is to, in your own words, thoroughly summarize and explain the issue while attaching to your analysis a copy of the article. In order for credit to be granted, a copy of the articles must be attached to your typed analysis. Do not use hyper-links.

The purpose of the assignment is threefold: 1) to view published news sources from the perspective of this class, 2) to help you remember rather than memorize applied economic concepts and, 3) to view the pros and cons of local developments with an economic perspective.

Before you begin to write your explanation of the article, you may want to consider how you would answer if a friend were to ask you to summarize this article in economic terms. Remember, however, the explanation you submit must be based on the assigned text chapters.

Make sure that your explanation is complete and concise and in your own words. You need to demonstrate that you have an understanding of the applied concepts, using words that you would normally use in a conversation. Do not merely regurgitate the authors words in your explanation.

This assignment will be graded for thoroughness, correctness, spelling, and grammar. This assignment must be typed for credit to be granted.

There is no minimum word count. The average assignment length is 2-1/2 pages. Be specific in your analysis.