The Student Loan Debt Crisis: The Hazard of Forgiving Them
Your research paper should be approximately 15 pages long and should include a variety of resources, not including tite, abstract, and reference page. Newspaper articles and other media sources can be used to develop your topic. Your theoretical analysis should be built upon books and peer-reviewed journal articles in the field of ethics in public administration. Your paper should be double-spaced and in 12-point font. You must use citations and all sources should be in APA format. Due October 11 at 5:00 pm.
Note: The above topic is regarding the ethical issues relating to public administration. This is the topic I chose.
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The research paper is an analysis of the moral hazards of forgiving student loans. The moral hazards of loan forgiveness consider decision making in the knowledge that others would pay for the risks. Public administrators must assess the implications of decisions over benefits. The ethical dilemma in question is that the decision to benefit the students will lead to sacrificing another part of the population. For taxpayers, the concern is on whether the decision has a worse implication on the largest part of the community. According to utilitarianism, ethical decisions lead to the greatest good for the largest number of people. This discussion includes the perspectives of the loan forgiveness programs proposed…
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