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Policy Brief

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1 The Policy Proposal
In drafting your proposal, you should consider the following points:
1. The proposal should be well reasoned, logically structured, convincing, and based on empirical evidence.
2. Clearly describe the issue you’re addressing and briefly discuss why it’s an important policy question.
3. Make sure your policy recommendation and details are clear.
4. In creating your program, you should think deeply about the following questions:
(a) What is the scope of the problem?
(b) Do we need a policy intervention to solve this problem? Why is your program the best solution? How will
it solve the problem defined?
(c) What is the proposed intervention?
(d) Who will be eligible for this intervention/program? How many people might be affected/treated by your
program.
(e) Are there similar policies/programs anywhere in the country?
(f) What is the expected impact of the program on the participant’s outcomes?
(g) What does empirical evidence say about similar programs?
(h) How will the program be funded? What will it cost?

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Leesa, a human services student, comes from a family of teachers and follows news about education closely. She recently read about incidents in which children whose parents/guardians have fallen behind on paying for their school lunches have been told, while in the meal line, that they cannot have any food. The public reaction is very intense and almost exclusively negative, so she is surprised to learn that a state legislator has recently introduced a bill that permits cafeteria workers to refuse to feed children and also requires them to do so when the unpaid balance reaches the price equivalent of 20 meals. Leesa wonders how it is possible for policymakers to believe that this is a good solution to the problem of children’s unpaid lunch bills.It is sometimes the case that helping professionals and members of the general public get involved in issues related to social welfare policy when something happens that outrages them, like children being denied lunch. Suppose you are Leesa and you are genuinely upset by the proposed policy. Answer the following questions:

How do you think policy analysis would be helpful to you?
How could you use critical theory to understand the proposed policy requiring that children not receive lunch when their unpaid balance reaches the price equivalent of 20 meals?
Propose and justify a policy that states what should be done when students’ families fail to pay for the students’ meals.

Policy Brief

Posted on | by Brian Leakey

Read a policy brief/report from either the Brookings Institute or the Hoover Institution and address the following questions:
How does the brief/report compare with the description of policy analysis in your required readings?
Do you think the analysis comes more from a rational perspective or a political perspective? Why?
Do you support changes being made to your selected policy? Why or why not?
https://www.brookings.edu/
https://www.hoover.org/

Policy Brief

Posted on | by Brian Leakey

Read a policy brief/report from either the Brookings Institute or the Hoover Institution and address the following questions:
How does the brief/report compare with the description of policy analysis in your required readings?
Do you think the analysis comes more from a rational perspective or a political perspective? Why?
Do you support changes being made to your selected policy? Why or why not?
https://www.brookings.edu/
https://www.hoover.org/

Policy Brief

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Leesa, a human services student, comes from a family of teachers and follows news about education closely. She recently read about incidents in which children whose parents/guardians have fallen behind on paying for their school lunches have been told, while in the meal line, that they cannot have any food. The public reaction is very intense and almost exclusively negative, so she is surprised to learn that a state legislator has recently introduced a bill that permits cafeteria workers to refuse to feed children and also requires them to do so when the unpaid balance reaches the price equivalent of 20 meals. Leesa wonders how it is possible for policymakers to believe that this is a good solution to the problem of children’s unpaid lunch bills.It is sometimes the case that helping professionals and members of the general public get involved in issues related to social welfare policy when something happens that outrages them, like children being denied lunch. Suppose you are Leesa and you are genuinely upset by the proposed policy. Answer the following questions:
How do you think policy analysis would be helpful to you?
How could you use critical theory to understand the proposed policy requiring that children not receive lunch when their unpaid balance reaches the price equivalent of 20 meals?
Propose and justify a policy that states what should be done when students’ families fail to pay for the students’ meals.