Select a news article or magazine article dated within the previous
two months and analyze the issue using the economic concepts and
theory learned in economics. Include at least one economic graph
developed in our course. Possible concepts include:

– taxes and consumer or producer surplus
– demand, supply, and equilibrium price of a particular product
– elasticity on a particular product
– perfect competition and imperfect competition, such as monopolies
– labor market, wages, and income inequality
– poverty and public policy