Dick Durbin's website: America now owes over $14 trillion to our creditors. Referring to the above statement Durbin states: This is simply unsustainable. Tammy Duckworth's website: The Family and Medical Leave Act, known as FMLA, [gives] some new parents the opportunity to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave. Duckworth later states: we should pass common-sense legislation to make the workplace more accommodating for working parents.   Question 5 options:   A)  in order: positive, positive, normative, normative   B)  in order: normative, positive, normative, positive   C)  in order: positive, normative, positive, normative   D)  in order: normative, normative, positive, positive

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Question 04: Positive or Normative statements? Indicate whether each of the following statements is a positive or normative economic statement:

Statement from our Illinois Senators websites…
Dick Durbin's website: America now owes over $14 trillion to our creditors.
Referring to the above statement Durbin states: This is simply unsustainable.
Tammy Duckworth's website: The Family and Medical Leave Act, known as FMLA, [gives] some new parents the opportunity to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave.
Duckworth later states: we should pass common-sense legislation to make the workplace more accommodating for working parents.
 

Question 5 options:

 

A) 

in order: positive, positive, normative, normative
 

B) 

in order: normative, positive, normative, positive
 

C) 

in order: positive, normative, positive, normative
 

D) 

in order: normative, normative, positive, positive
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