Public Policy

Compare and contrast methods of evaluation and prescription in terms of time and the types of claims produced by each. Provide examples to support your response.

Assume you are a program director who must propose an effective evaluation of your program’s performance. Compare and contrast formative and summative evaluation, and determine which one will provide performance information that would be most useful to policy makers. Provide reasons and at least one example to support your response.

From the e-Activity, select two different states and locations (city or county) to compare the living wage estimates and poverty wage for a family with one adult and one child designated for the two states and selected locations. Make sure to find two states that have more than $2.00 difference in living wage estimates. Suggest at least two reasons for the differences. 

From the case study, Case 7.1., explain at least two reasons many consider the adoption of a living wage a moral and ethical issue. Discuss the implications that morality and ethics have to analyzing and developing public policy.