Case Study Assignment 4

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General Instructions on Case Study Assignments The purpose of this assignment is to allow students to apply concepts and knowledge acquired through reading materials to a specific case. There will be four case study assignments throughout the semester. To complete this assignment, follow the steps below: Read the textbook chapter and the PowerPoints for the specific week. Read the case assigned for analysis. Answer the questions provided for the assignment. Respond to one other students’ answer. Case Study Assignment 4 The case to be analyzed in this assignment is “The Plight of Public Employee Unions and Public Pensions”. You can find the case on page 454 of the textbook. After reading the case please answer the following questions: Do you think public employees run a risk of becoming more isolated from private sector workers who don’t have pensions and aren’t in unions? Why? Why not? What do you think of the unions using legal challenges in court as a primary strategy to achieve their goals? What do you think of public employees receiving life-long defined benefit-pensions? Do you think it places a burden on the younger taxpayer generations? Find out, and share with the rest of the class, the kind of pension plans offered to the employees of your local government. What do you think about them? The original answer to the case study questions should be around 500 words total. Please be coherent and avoid repetition. Keep your answers clear and to the point. The comments to your fellow students should be around 200 words each. These comments should discuss the answers, not the authors. They should add something to the discussion and/ or provide constructive criticism. Comments that simply agree with other students’ responses without an argument to back up the agreement will not be read or graded. Please include in-text citations and references in APA style. For this assignment, you can use the textbook a source of information. Other sources are encouraged.