COMMUNITY PROGRAM ASSIGNMENT

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. Each student will evaluate a social welfare program from the following list. I will send each student the program that they are to evaluate via Blackboard email only.

· Medicare

· Medicaid

· Supplemental Security Income (SSI)

· Food Stamps

· TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needed Families)

· WIC (Women, Infants and Children) 

· CHIPS (Children Health Insurance Programs)

· National School Lunch Program

· Meals on Wheel

· Head Start

· Job Corp

· Energy Assistance Program

· Section 8 Housing

2. Your paper should include the following: (Please use the headings in bold without the alphabets for each section. Each section should be in paragraph format.

A. History – This is a brief history of social welfare program. Please include dates and any significant individuals (s) who played a part in establishing this program.

B. Legislative Authorization – This refers to the law, bill or act that legalized this program. In addition, these are the purposes of the program as formally stated. A program may be successful in attaining these objectives, it may be partially successful, it may attain other objectives not planned for, or it may simple be unsuccessful. Although the stated objectives guide one’s evaluation of a program, the attainment of unanticipated objectives should be included in the evaluation of program. In some cases, they may be important as the originally intended objectives.

C. Source of Funding – Funding is crucial to program implementation. In public

funding, there is sometimes a distinction between legislation and the appropriation of  funds to carry out the legislated program; both the authorizing legislation and the appropriations legislation are necessary for a functional program. Private agencies, also, may recognize the need for a program but may not have adequate resources to implement it.

D. Eligibility Requirements – These determine who is eligible to participate in a

program. If a program is universal in scope, need is the only criterion for eligibility.  The more residual a program is, the more stringent the eligibility requirements are likely to be.

E. Coverage – Eligibility requirement establish the boundaries of the potential client

population, whereas coverage refers to the number of those eligible who actually participate in the program. It is good measure of the program’s effectiveness in reaching the target population, and it is frequently the case that more people are eligible for a program than actually receive benefits.

 

Research Papers Guidelines

1. Must be in APA format (begin to research if not familiar)

2. Typed, 12 font, Times New Roman, & Double-spaced

3. Title page (excluded from the pages)

4. Reference page (excluded from the pages)

5. Must have “5” references—-Be sure to properly cite the author & year in the body of the

paragraphs. Wikipedia, or similar sources, should NOT be used as a source in this paper.

6. Must submit through Turnitin.com to receive a grade

7. Will receive a “0” if not submitted via Turnitin.com…Turnitin.com has several maintenance issues; therefore, it is best to submit before the due date because it will be your responsibility to submit your assignment.

8. Research papers must be five (4) or more pages

**MY TOPIC IS · WIC (Women, Infants and Children) 

Explain each committee’s functions (is it substantive or procedural?).

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When You Win…SLO #3

  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 (is it substantive or procedural?).
    2. Explain why your placement on these committees is justified.  How does it serve you 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?

Discuss why ongoing evaluation of public policies is important.

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Review of Reading Materials 0-10 points
Used no citings

0points

 Used 1 citings

6points

 Used 2 citings

8points

 10 Used the required 3 citings

10points

 
Paper Organization 0-5 points
Not organized Click to edit level

0points

 Average paper—weak in two areas—intro or main body or summary/conclusionClick to edit level

2points

 CWell organized paper— weak in one area: intro, main body, or summary/conclusionlick to edit level

3points

 Well organized paper—strong introduction, main body and summary/conclusion

5points

 
Policy Concepts/theories Linked to Analysis and Experience/Example(s)/Personal Observation 0-10 points
Lack of concepts/theories linked to analysis

0points

 Minimal concepts development and application with minimal analysis

6points

 Two well-developed concepts that demonstrate analysis and application

8points

 Three well-developed concepts that demonstrate analysis and application

10points

 
Paper Format and Style (APA)Click to edit criterion 0-5 points
Very poor work with many errors without using APA style

0points

 Many errors with minimal use of APA style

2points

 Some format and style errors

3points

 Excellent format and style, no grammatical or punctuation errors including correct use of reference citations

5points

 
Followed Guidance—Paper Length, Due Date 0-5 points
No work

0points

 Missed both—paper length and due date

2points

 Missed paper length or due date

3points

 Met paper length (2-3 pages) and due date

5point

How are Trump’s immigration laws affecting the economy or will affect the economy.

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How Would Donald Trump’s Immigration Plans Affect the U.S. Economy?

TheStreet . (Jan. 15, 2016):

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“Illegal immigration is beyond belief,” declared Donald Trump at the sixth Republican presidential primary debate on Thursday evening. He’s got a plan to fix it, though the ramifications might not be all that great for the economy.

Tackling immigration has been among the billionaire businessman’s top priorities in his presidential bid. He first made waves on the issue in his campaign announcement speech in June (http://time.com/3923128/donald-trump-announcement-speech/), calling Mexican immigrantscriminals and rapists and pledging to build a wall on the southern border.

His plans have cost him a handful of business deals (https://www.yahoo.com/politics/trump-loses-business-deals-over-comments-about-122945934376.html), but they might cost the United Statesmuch more.

The American Action Forum, a right-leaning policy institute based in Washington D.C., estimates (http://americanactionforum.org/research/the-budgetary-and-economic-costs-of-addressing-unauthorized-immigration-alt) that immediately and fully enforcing current immigration law, as Trump has suggested, would cost the federal government from $400 billion to $600 billion. It would shrink the labor force by 11 million workers, reduce the real GDP by $1.6 trillion and take 20 years to complete (Trump has said he could do it in 18 months).

“It will harm the U.S. economy,” said Doug Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum and chief economic policy adviser to Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, in an October interview (http://www.thestreet.com/story/13335121/1/if-donald-trump-was-president-here-s-what-would-happen-to-the-u-s-economy.html). “Immigration is an enormous source of economic vitality.”

A number of industries that depend heavily on cheap immigrant labor would be devastated — especially agriculture. “There would be an abrupt drop in farm income and a sharp rise in food prices,” said John McLaren, professor of economics at the University of Virginia with expertise in international trade, economic development and the political economy.

Companies that sell to the immigrant population would be affected as well, leading to decreased revenues for local businesses and a loss of American jobs.

“Immigrants, whether they are legal or illegal, always spend a portion of their earnings in the location where they have their jobs,” McLaren said. “And in a lot of our urban centers, this is actually an important part of the economy.”

Ted Cruz has argued that illegal immigration drives down wages, but that is generally not the case (http://www.thestreet.com/story/13399577/1/is-ted-cruz-right-that-immigration-drives-down-wages.html). According to an April 2015 study (http://www.nber.org.ezproxy.fiu.edu/papers/w21123.pdf) from the National Bureau of Economic Research, the opposite happens, and local real wages often rise.

Moreover, on average, each immigrant generates 1.2 local jobs for local workers, most of which are native-born Americans.

“Obviously, those jobs would disappear if the undocumented were just yanked away,” McLaren said.

On Thursday, Trump appeared to link illegal immigration to the national debt, though the exact relationship wasn’t clear. “We are $19 trillion — our country’s a mess and we can’t let all these people come into our country and break our borders. We can’t do it,” he said.

Of course, Trump’s criticism of the U.S. immigration system isn’t strictly tied to wages, the loss of American jobs or the economy at all — it is also focused on Muslim immigration and the threat of terrorism. On Thursday, he appeared more interested in discussing the latter.

When asked why moderator Maria Bartiromo whether he would consider rethinking his proposal that Muslim immigration be brought to a halt, he stuck to his guns and again refused to back down.

“Look, we have to stop with the political correctness,” he said. “We have to get down to creating a country that’s not going to have the kind of problems that we’ve had with people flying planes into the World Trade Centers, with the — with the shootings in California, with all the problems all over the world.”

He reiterated his assertion that “we have to find out what’s going on” and emphasized that he has banned a temporary stop, not permanent.

Trump’s plans may be momentary, but some say the impact of his over-the-top rhetoric on immigration could be long-lasting and do irreversible damage to the American image.

“What’s the American brand after we’ve rounded up 11 million people and sent them packing?” said Jim Pethokoukis, a columnist at the American Enterprise Institute, a center-right think tank based on Washington, D.C. “Do people still view America the same way?”

Emily Stewart

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“How Would Donald Trump’s Immigration Plans Affect the U.S. Economy?” TheStreet, 15 Jan. 2016. Academic OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A439997828/AONE?u=miam11506&sid=AONE&xid=2b6d2f28. Accessed 10 Apr. 2019.