Answer to Question 1
An ideal response will:
1. Discuss how obesity is a major health problem in the United States. Playgrounds offer the opportunity for children to get exercise, which can reduce health care costs significantly.
2. Indicate that good exercise habits learned on playgrounds can continue later in life, which again can reduce health care costs.
3. Note that playgrounds can benefit all areas, but can be particularly important in urban areas where there may not be room for children to play, and low-income areas where residents cannot afford exercise programs such as those offered with gym memberships
Answer to Question 2
An ideal response will:
1. Identify the EITC as a tax credit instituted in 1975 that reduces or eliminates all taxes for the working poor.
2. Describe how the credit allows low-income workers to receive money back from the government in the form of a tax refund.
3. Detail how the policy has been extremely effective, as it has lifted 5 million Americans above the poverty line, and how it has particularly helped unmarried working mothers who often have minimum-wage jobs in the service industry.
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