Interest Groups in Texas Assignment – Minimum Wage

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Interest Groups in Texas Assignment – Minimum Wage

The United States has a minimum wage law prohibiting any employer from paying less than $7.25 per hour. Many states – and even some individual cities – have set local minimum wages higher than the federal level. Texas has declined, keeping our state’s minimum wage the same as in federal law.

Earlier this year, State Representative Senfronia Thompson (D-Houston) filed H.B. 290 (Links to an external site.) to raise the Texas minimum wage in stages, reaching $10.10 by 2024.

The Center for Public Policy Priorities, a left-leaning advocacy organization, supports raising the Texas minimum wage above the federal level. They argue that low-skill workers’ pay has not risen at the same rate as their cost of living – particularly for housing.

The Texas Restaurant Association represents restaurants – large and small – throughout Texas. They have argued that raising minimum wages above the equilibrium level for unskilled workers means that many of the most vulnerable workers will lose their jobs as companies find ways make do with fewer of them. Self-service checkout lines in grocery stores are an example of what happens when wages rise above the natural level set by the market.

For your assignment, write our usual 2 – 5 page essay with three specific sections.

1. If you were representing the Center for Public Policy Priorities at a lobbyist, what would you do to help pass Rep. Thompson’s bill?

2. If you were representing the Texas Restaurant Association as a lobbyist, what would you do to change or defeat the bill?

3. If you were a state legislator, how would you deal with these competing interests? What information would you want, and how would you view the issue?

Submit in Word. Cite your sources.

Note: This is an essay about interest groups and what they do. Tell me what you would do in each of these three roles. Do not spend your essay telling me what you think about the minimum wage issue.

Resources

Here’s the Center for Public Policy Priorities: http://forabettertexas.org/ (Links to an external site.)

Here’s the Texas Restaurant Association: https://www.txrestaurant.org/ (Links to an external site.)

Here’s H.B. 290: https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=86R&Bill=HB290 (Links to an external site.)

The Texas Tribune talks about Texas’ reluctance to address this issue: https://www.texastribune.org/2018/12/20/most-states-raise-their-minimum-wages-texas-refuses-budge/ (Links to an external site.)

Here’s a CPPP position paper on this issue from 2015: https://forabettertexas.org/images/EO_2015_04_MinWage_report.pdf (Links to an external site.)

The Hill News explains some of the problems with raising the minimum wage: https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/321967-minimum-wage-hikes-fail-to-benefit-low-income-families (Links to an external site.)

The University of Washington has found that Seattle’s higher minimum wage as hurt workers: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/study-seattles-minimum-wage-is-hurting-the-poor (Links to an external site.)

The Nation Magazine disagrees: https://www.thenation.com/article/no-seattles-15-minimum-wage-is-not-hurting-workers/ (Links to an external site.)

A University of California-Irvine study finds particular problems in poor neighborhoods: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/higher-minimum-wages-increase-poverty-in-poor-neighborhoods-study-finds

What should a marketer take into account when attempting to increase the processing fluency of an advert and monitor its effectiveness

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Please do not copy and paste any text from the book or any articles as this will be flagged by the system.
Use relevant detail from the lecture material (and/or books and articles).
1. What should a marketer take into account when attempting to increase the processing
fluency of an advert and monitor its effectiveness?
a. Please define any relevant concepts/theories from the module material, making sure to
expand on them, while also discussing their significance.
[20 marks]
b. Please discuss relevant marketing examples and applications (up to three) in terms of
the types of adverts that you can design from a processing fluency perspective, making
sure to provide detailed explanations to support your answers.
[10 marks]
Please use the information from the slides provided,i found the answer 1a in seminar slides
dont need any references

Architecture Theory

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This course stresses contact with primary texts, along with listed key buildings, projects, and documents, through which weekly topics and questions are posed. The type of reading you will be required to do in this class moves beyond finding information or locating an authors purpose or identifying main ideas and dig deep in theoretical texts to reveal meaning, systems of relationships between ideas, and examine your own response to these ideas and their impact on the world around them. You might imagine that you are engaged in a conversation with the author, and you are in a position to speak back, to say something of your own. Such critical reading requires that you question intensely, make your own conclusions and synthesis, and follow your own agenda.

Elections & Campaigns in Texas Assignment – Campaign for County Commissioner Pct. 3

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After 11 years as a police officer and 4 as a county constable, Steve Radack was elected to represent Precinct 3 on Harris County Commissioners’ Court in 1988, and has served there ever since. On the last day for candidates to file in December, 2019, Commissioner Radack announced he would not seek reelection, setting off a scramble of candidates for one of the most powerful positions in government.

The voters of Precinct 3 have leaned Republican over the past 30 years or so, but growth in the area’s minority population combined with the unpopularity of President Donald Trump among suburban and exurban voters have made this a competitive seat in a general election. Republican Donald Trump carried this area in 2016, despite losing Harris County, but Democrat Beto O’Rourke carried it in the 2018 senate race.

Before even getting to the general election, though, candidates have to compete in party primary elections to become their party’s nominee.

For this assignment. You are now the virtual campaign manager for a candidate for Harris County Commissioner, Precinct 3. If your client is a Republican, they’re trying to win the Republican Primary. If your client is a Democrat, they’re trying to win the Democratic Primary. Don’t worry about the November election yet. If you were in charge, what would you do to help your client get elected to this office?

Choose one of the candidates and design a campaign to win the primary election. Write this assignment as a 2 – 5 page memorandum (memo) (with cited sources) from you, the campaign manager, to your candidate. Outline the race for them, how much money you think they need to raise, how you will raise it for them, what you propose to spend it on, what issues they should talk about, how you want to deliver their message, etc.

Some things to keep in mind:

Remember, party primaries are only for that party’s voters. If your candidate’s a Republican, you’re only campaigning to Republican voters. If your candidate’s a Democrat, you’re only campaigning to Democratic voters.
Precinct 3 is huge – geographically and demographically. At 1.2 million, it has more people than Montana.
Nearly half the population is not in the city limits of any city, meaning county government is the only source of many government services like law enforcement, parks, libraries and code enforcement.
If nobody in your primary race gets a majority (50% plus one) of the vote, the top two finishers will go to a runoff election on May 26. Will any voters still be paying attention on May 26?
Not everybody who lives in Precinct 3 will vote in this election. Some are under 18 years old, or they’re not U.S. citizens. Some simply won’t register or show up. Some voters just don’t vote in party primaries. How do you target people who are going to vote in this election?
What sort of people live in your candidate’s district. What motivates them?
What is your candidate’s background and experience? What will be his or her key issues?
How much money will you need? How will you raise it? How will you spend it?
How will you get your message out? Be cautious about television. Remember – anybody who lives outside Precinct 3 can’t vote for or against your client. You’ll waste a lot of money if you use TV. Same with radio, although radio is a lot cheaper, so some candidates think it’s worth considering. If you use direct mail, you can mail only to people who are registered to vote. Or, you can be more surgical – only people registered to vote who voted in the 2018 general election, for example.
This can be a challenging assignment, but it can also be a lot of fun. Keep in mind that campaigning is more art than science, and that there are few absolutely right or wrong answers. If I asked five campaign professionals to do this assignment for the same candidate, I would probably get five totally different campaign strategies (and they’d charge me a lot of money).

Hint: Remember, this is a memo to your client, not an essay about your client. Talk to your client. Do not spend the first page telling them where they were born, where they went to college or how many kids they have – they know this already. Talk to them about your strategy to win the election for  them.

Submit in Word. Cite your sources.