Advocacy Research

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Advocacy Research 

Hello, I am researching advocacy groups in regards to the new fiscal policy that Trump is administering and how they will be affected if these public assistance programs are diminished . I was emailing you to take a look at my blog to see if what I'm researching interests you and your advocacy group and you can just email me back at this email or just respond to me blog.

http://myenc1102researchblog.blogspot.com/

Proposal

Shawnterise Anderson
ENC 1102
6/13/17
Initial Proposal
Big Cuts, Little funding
There are several programs and many reasons as to why they were implemented by and for the people of this country to better help assist in the anti-poverty efforts of many Americans. In my proposal, I want to present Donald Trump’s budget cuts and the impact of these cuts in the various programs that have been for many very beneficial.  I feel passionate about this topic because I feel as though if things go according to the way that trump has planned the middle-class and the poor will suffer greatly. I hope that my research will help me to understand his reasons for these cuts and if they will help us in the present and the future.
Funding
To begin I would like to discuss how funding works according to National Priorities Project funding for the various programs that we have comes from three different types of income. The first one being income taxes, in which 100 million American households file a federal tax return each year, and those income taxes make up the federal governments single largest revenue source. You also have payroll taxes that are paid by workers and employers, your corporate income taxes paid by businesses. The federal government raises trillions of dollars in tax revenues through these sources and these are the tax funds that either fund specific programs or they just fund the government in general. So, with all this money coming in from various forms of revenue even yours and mine own taxpayer dollars are paying for. Why is there a need to cut programs that are essential to many Americans?
Cutting
I have researched an article by the New York Times that Julie goes into grave detail to explain how Trumps budget cuts deeply into many programs and hits anti-poverty efforts rather harshly. Claire states that in Trumps new budget for 2018 programs like healthcare which he plans to slash more than $800 billion from Medicaid, food stamps which will be cut by $192 billion, student loans, disability payments, and many more welfare programs that will be cut by $272 billion. Now what do all these programs have in common yep you guessed it providing some type of benefit for the poor. Instead of investing his money into these programs Trump has a $4.1 trillion-dollar budget that he is more focused on putting money towards border security and beginning to build this wall he so desperately feels needs to be built.
Who the cuts affect?
Quoctrung and Susan explain in their article how much Trumps budget will affect women the most. In their research, they provide a table that shows various programs for women which is eight and has an eight percent decrease and four programs for men that has a two percent decrease. Trump has already gotten full throttled resistance from women. So, in their study which is gender- based budgeting they found out that the most cuts would come from the programs that spend more on women than the programs that spend money on men. Most of the programs that I stated in the cutting section fall under the programs that most women fall into which are also the same programs that women tend to benefit from.
Opinion/ Conclusion
From all the research that I have gathered I don’t see how anyone can just sit back as programs that many of us as women or poor Americans are taken from us or are cut out of the budget. I am a child of a single mother who receives food stamps, and although it isn’t much I do say it beats spending over $50 of your own money for necessities. So, speaking for one of the women of the poor side of the America, cutting these programs will affect many including myself which is why my research stands that Trumps budget cuts will negatively impact our society.
Works Citied
1. Davis, Julie Hirschfeld. "Trump’s Budget Cuts Deeply Into Medicaid and Anti-Poverty Efforts." The New York Times. The New York Times, 22 May 2017. Web. 14 June 2017. <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/trump-budget-cuts.html>.

2. Bui, Quoctrung, and Susan Chira. "How Trump’s Budget Affects Women." The New York Times. The New York Times, 24 May 2017. Web. 14 June 2017. <https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/24/upshot/how-trumps-budget-affects-women.html>.

3. "Federal Revenue: Where Does the Money Come From." National Priorities Project. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 June 2017. <https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/revenues/>.

Stakeholder and Genre Analysis Assignment and Submission

Shawnterise Anderson
6/18/17
ENC 1102
Stakeholder and Genre Analysis Assignment and Submission
Stakeholder Analysis:
While diving into my chosen topic of Trumps impact on cutting public assistance programs, I have chosen a few stakeholders that I feel will suit this topic proposal the best. My first potential stakeholder would have to public assistance programs. Also, government representatives and then the actual political parties. But after researching and trying to find articles either on various websites or through the UCF website I found that my best support would come from governors and supporters from public assistance programs.
So, to begin the first discourse that I want to consider for my project would be public assistance supporters. In the peer reviewed article, ‘’Budget Cuts Continue to Threaten State Medicaid Programs” three different advocacy coalitions are working together to make sure that Medicaid is not cut to help fund mental health care treatment (Kanapaux, Sep. 2004). This discourse can help add to the cause as evidence that it would be appalling for these programs to be cut because it can have a very horrendous outcome. Especially for those that really depend on it. For the discourse of governors, I found the article ‘’Taking a Scalpel to Medicaid”.
In this article, I found that the republicans tried to cover their cuts of Medicaid by saying their bill would offer greater flexibility (Gurley 68).  In the article, you also learn how smaller federal Medicaid allocations will negatively affect the poor. By closing rural hospitals and not being able to provide care for low-income residents in these hospitals (Gurley 70).  These two discourses are people or organizations that see the injustice in what it would mean if these programs are to be cut and that is why I choose them. They offer strong points and concerns that I myself have about the future and present standing of public assistance programs.
Genre Analysis
Governors:
When determining the genres that governors use I have narrowed it down to documents, emails, meetings, and letters. But the primary genre that they read and write on would have to be documents. Whether these documents are bills or proposals they are used. For example, George W. Bush asked the NGA to craft a black -grant proposal to send to congress (Gurley 71). This genre goes through so many people to be sent down to be looked at on whether it should be approved, adjusted or straight up denied.
As far as receiving information, many of these governors can do anything from looking onto the web and viewing polls or people’s social media to see what they think about various situations or actions Donald Trump has implemented. As well as sending letters when arguing on their view on what they see as a mistake that can be made as well as prevented. The information the governors or anyone in power finds to be convincing is the information that either favors what they believe or what can be backed by numbers.
For governors, I feel a very appropriate and comfortable genre for them would be a document. Whether that document be placed on a PDF file or printed out fresh off the press right in front of them. This genre would be suitable to use when communicating to me because in most documents that I’ve been researching on they include all the necessary information that needs to be included for that subject of that document. As well as a table of contents to reflect on or to
just simply skip to the part in the document that concerns them the most.  For example, in Donald Trump’s new budget for the U.S. government ‘’A New Foundation for American Greatness’ ‘the document is a whopping sixty-two pages and goes into detail of the plans for the new budget of the next following year.  Also, you can find like I stated before the table of contents that list everything from investing into defense to reforming student loan programs.
Supporters of Public Assistance:
The only genre that I have researched to find when it comes to supporters of public assistance would be campaigns or rallies. These rallies wouldn’t just bring in people to tell them information that they already know but try to educate them. Educate them in ways that deter them from voting for Trump again or still supporting him and his ideology. These supporters get their information through doing proper research like described in the article ‘’Budget Cuts Continue to Threaten State Medicaid Programs”. They provide research and various information for their genre that goes in hand with their advocacy or issue.
The best suitable genre for communicating in my proposal case would be to campaign. I feel like when you see people heavily involved in a cause it makes you want to learn and know more about their message and what they are trying to educate others on. Which is exactly how I would want to present my information or research to this group. The research that I have come up with for this genre provides me with an approach that I feel can reach people of all ages and backgrounds. The message can have a bigger approach than just using the genre of writing to one or twelve governors and presenting them with a document. I feel like you first have to start right at home and have people you see every day and talk about the issues that bother you with on your side. Your message can reach many by just campaigning and supporting what you believe in.