Describe state and local political systems and their relationship with the federal government.

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1) Assignments should be 2-3 double-spaced pages, with reasonable (12 pt.) font and reasonable (1 inch) margins.

(2) Citations to the material are required; in-text citations are preferred (MLA style).

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  1.  Research the committees of the House ( http://www.house.state.tx.us/committees/ ) and state senate (http://www.senate.state.tx.us/committees.php )
  2. Choose at least three (3) committees on which you’d serve, if elected.
    1.  Explain each committee’s functions.
    2. Explain why your placement on these committees is justified.  How does it serve your district’s needs?  How does it emphasize your experiences/interests?
  3. What kind of constituent service would you be likely to do?  What kind of “home style” would you create (and how?)  Most Texans do not know who their legislators are.  How do you seek to solve that problem?

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Program-Level Outcome 1: Communication Skills – to include effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written, oral and visual communication

1. Written: Process and produce effective written communication adapted to audience, purpose, and time constraints.

Program-Level Outcome 2: Critical Thinking Skills – to include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information

Program-Level Outcome 5: Personal Responsibility – to include the ability to connect choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision-making

Program-Level Outcome 6: Social Responsibility – to include intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities

Course Level Outcomes :

2. Describe state and local political systems and their relationship with the federal government.

5. Evaluate the role of public opinion, interest groups, and political parties in Texas.

6. Analyze the state and local election process.

7. Identify the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

8. Analyze issues, policies and political culture of Texas.

Review the personnel manual, if available.

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Course Project Part 4

As part of the course project in Week 4, you need to examine human resources (HR) of the NPO you selected for W1 Project. Include members of the board of directors as well as volunteers. When reviewing each personnel, consider his or her title, roles, and responsibilities.

Create a report using Microsoft Word that includes the following:

  • Review the personnel manual, if available.
  • Identify all personnel, including the staff, the board of directors, and volunteers.
  • Descriptions of personnel, including their roles and responsibilities.
  • Develop a brief online survey to gather demographical information about personnel.
  • Search the Internet to identify free online survey software and sample organizational charts or diagrams.
  • Analyze survey findings.
  • The summary of survey findings, tables, and figures as appropriate.
  • An organizational chart or diagram in the Microsoft Word format, which depicts the structure of all personnel in the organization.

Submission Details:

  • Submit your assignment in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document.

N.B the NPO is  Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) of the Coastal Empire

also paper layout is as follows

Organizational Analysis

Cover Page

Table of Content

Personnel Identification

1. Personnel Description, roles and responsibilities

2. Personnel Demographical Information Survey

a. Survey findings Summary

b. Survey findings tables and figures (if appropriate and available)

3. Organizational chart (depicts the structure of all personnel in the organization)

References

Appendixes

Appendix C Employee Handbook Sample

Appendix E Meeting Minutes Sample

Running head: RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ANALYSIS 1

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ANALYSIS 4

Ronald McDonald House Analysis

Vibert Jacob

South University

Introduction

Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) of the Coastal Empire is an NPO, which offers a comforting, calm location for kids and their families to find accommodation and assistance as they get health care at our nearby hospitals. For extremely ill or injured kids and their families, the RMHC of the Coastal Empire can be the most important House they will ever stay (RMHC, 2017). RMHC focusses on helping kids get better faster, manage better, adjust better, and remain sound by methods for its three critical activities, the Ronald McDonald House, and the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile, and the Ronald McDonald House Family Rooms. With the true objective to perceive how RMHC functions, this examination will lead a definitive examination of RMHC.

Employees

RMHC has many employees including leadership team, key staff, and volunteers. The management team is led by Bill Sorochak who is the Executive Director. Volunteers at RMHC are college students from around the municipal who helps at the House, Family Rooms and adolescent-only service occasions and events that benefit Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Coastal Empire (RMHC, 2017).

Control

According to RMHC (2017), the Savannah House is administrated by a 21-member Directorate and overseen by a full-time staff of four. Each office has an executive and a supervisor and their right hand who are ordered to guarantee smooth and effective task of the association. There are in any case, extraordinary panels that regulate execution of the board. Individuals from the panel are in charge of working like an asset for representatives, the association and each other– sharing their insight and serving to accomplish certain destinations and points, which help the mission of the Ronald Macdonald House Charities. Each advisory group is comprised of individuals from the board, House staff and volunteers, and choices and systems are guided by representatives and the chosen volunteer seat. The councils include: Community Outreach Committee, Facilities Committee, Fiscal Services Committee, Fund Development Committee, and Board Governance Committee (RMHC, 2017).

Operations

RMHC arranged in Savannah, Georgia begun its activities in July 1987 and proceeds to offer expectation, support and encouragement to kids together with their relatives through blessings from organizations, associations, individuals, establishments and the assistance of neighborhood administrators and proprietors of MacDonald. RMHC in Savannah is focused on offering a home far from home for gravely wiped out or injured children and their relatives who are getting treatment at the healing centers in the neighborhood, (2017).

My Liaison Jessica Seckinger is the Assistant House Manager

References

RMHC, (2017). Ronald MacDonald house charities of the coastal empires. Retrieved on April 18, 2017 from http://www.rmhccoastalempire.org/

Discuss your recommendations to deal with the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare as well as the Welfare Reform Act of 1996.

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One conservative argument against Medicare andSocial Securitystates that calling these programs “entitlement programs” is a misnomer and that they are actually the biggest income redistribution programs from the rich to the poor in the United States. Other conservatives state that stronger entitlement programs are nothing more than schemes for younger taxpayers to fund retirees. Proponents argue that Social Security benefits matter in the overall federal deficit reduction, and still others support privatization as the key to stabilizing the troubled system.

In a four- to five-page paper, address the following federal and state issues with entitlement programs:

  1. Are Social Security taxes a good investment?
  2. Evaluate the current funding process for Social Security and Medicare.
  3. In looking through the National budget entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid represent the biggest threat to the U.S. budget deficit. What reforms do you suggest to help avoid an unsustainable increase to the debt?
  4. Do you think the federal government should increase spending on Social Security and Medicare for the elderly? If not, should the elderly fund retirement and medical costs?
  5. Do you believe government efforts to manage Social Security and Medicaid has made things worse or better? Provide research support for your position (in the summary of the paper).
  6. Discuss your recommendations to deal with the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare as well as the Welfare Reform Act of 1996.

Assignment Resources:

  • https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v66n1/v66n1p1.html to gain some background and history on the Social Security Program
  • http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Th-W/Welfare-Reform-Act-1996.html
  • http://www.welfareinfo.org/reform/
  • https://www.ssa.gov/history/tally1996.html

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Include an Abstract and Conclusion in the four- to five-page count. Your cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
  • Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Analyze the basic skills and tools needed for budgeting for public sector agencies and / or departments.
  • Recommend appropriate policy actions based on the evaluation.
  • Evaluate a budgeting system at any governmental level.
  • Analyze the scope and sequence of budgeting in terms of sources of revenues, purpose of government expenditures, budget cycles, budget preparation, and debt administration.
  • Examine the process and components of preparing a viable operating budget.
  • Analyze the elements and principles of revenue estimating, forecasting, and adjusting budgets.
  • Analyze the steps required for budgeting, such as preparing a budget, making a financial plan, conducting a cost-benefit analysis, and making budget decisions.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in public budgeting and finance.
  • Write clearly and concisely about public budgeting and finance using proper writing mechanics.

Click here to view the grading rubric.

Identify one (1) member of Congress who has been charged with ethics violations in the past 2 years (include the date)

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Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which the student addresses the following three (3) items using headers to separate each response:

  1. Congressional Ethics: Identify one (1) member of Congress who has been charged with ethics violations in the past 2 years (include the date). Briefly discuss the reason for the charges and provide two (2) reasons why you agree or disagree with the verdict and any penalties. Provide examples to support your answer. Consider how the verdict and penalties impacts your trust of the members of Congress.
  2. Third Party Candidates: Discuss two (2) political reasons why a third party candidate has never been successful in winning a presidential election. Provide examples to support the answer. Consider the political impact of the Republican and Democratic Party if a third party was successful.
  3. Federal and State Authority: Identify one (1) current issue facing the United States today (from the past 6 months). Analyze the respective roles of federal and state authorities in addressing the issue. Determine whether the U.S. Constitution constrains the federal and state responses to the issue. Explain.

In your research, you cannot use Wikipedia, online dictionaries, Sparknotes, Cliffnotes, or any other website that does not qualify as an academic resource.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are to:

  • Identify informed opinions on issues and questions involving the U.S. government, national political processes, policy making, and the notion of democracy.
  • Employ terminology used to study political science and American government.
  • Develop reasoned written and spoken presentations on issues and questions involving the U.S. government and national political processes using information in the course.
  • Describe the basic values of American political culture.
  • Explain how the federal system of government works.
  • Explore different perspectives on issues and questions about the U.S. government and national political processes.
  • Describe the importance of an informed, effective citizenship for the national government and political processes.
  • Use concepts from our study of U.S. national government and politics (such as models of democracy) to discuss government and politics in state, local, and international contexts.
  • Examine the evolution of presidential power in military affairs.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in the field of U.S. government and politics.
  • Write clearly and concisely about U.S. government and politics using proper writing mechanics.