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Appendix A - Issue Coding for Disadvantaged Group Advocacy for Reputation Measure

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2021

Katrina F. McNally
Katrina F. McNally
Affiliation:
Eckerd College, Florida

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Representing the Disadvantaged
Group Interests and Legislator Reputation in US Congress
 , pp. 237
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021
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Appendix A Issue Coding for Disadvantaged Group Advocacy for Reputation Measure

Table A-1 presents the list of issues that are included as instances of advocacy for a disadvantaged group, in addition to all actions that are specifically attributed to being done to serve a particular group.

Table A-1 Issue coding by disadvantaged group

Veterans

  • Employment assistance (workforce training/increased licensures and certifications from military experience/employer tax credits for hiring/employment protections for returning guard members)

  • Creation of veteran job corps

  • Educational assistance (tuition assistance/GI Bill)

  • Healthcare (head trauma/PTSD/benefits expansion/telemedicine for rural vets/veteran suicide prevention/access to mental health care/counseling on deployment and return)

  • Assistance for disabled vets (housing/benefits/employment)

  • Housing benefits (homelessness prevention/special assistant at HUD)

  • VA improvements (fixing backlog/higher reimbursements for longer travels/automatic enrollment and training in using the system)

  • Resources for survivors of military sexual assault

  • Improvement of reintegration programs (counseling/financial planning)

  • Veterans History Project

Seniors

  • Protecting against financial scams

  • Medicare protection/expansion

  • Social Security protection/expansion (COLA increases/eliminating income cap)

  • Opposition to voter registration/ID laws (because of effects on elderly)

  • Expanding prescription drug coverage for seniors

  • Senior nutrition and other services

  • Older Americans Act

  • Expanding access to hospice and long-term care

LGBTQ

  • Repeal DADT

  • Repeal DOMA

  • Legalizing same-sex marriage

  • Employment protections

  • Government employee benefits for same-sex partners

  • Anti-bullying and nondiscrimination policies

  • Domestic violence/sexual assault protections (VAWA)

  • HIV/AIDS

Racial/Ethnic Minorities

  • Confinement/racial profiling/marijuana and other drug offenses/former inmate reintegration/police brutality

  • Reparations (slavery/Japanese internment)

  • Treatment HIV/AIDS (including in prison)

  • Voting rights (opposition to attempts to end early voting and require additional voter registration or ID/simplify voter registration of Voting Rights Act)

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Housing assistance

  • Employment (increase federal grants and contracts to minority-owned business/assistance to Black farmers)

  • African American History Museum

  • MLK birthday as federal holiday

  • Education (minorities in STEM, government and private partnerships with minority colleges/funding)

Immigrants

  • Immigration reform (path to citizenship/legal status/worker status/asylum seekers)

  • Shorten citizenship waiting period (members of military/family reunification)

  • DREAM act

  • Domestic violence protections (VAWA)

  • Citizenship education programs (English language assistance/naturalization workshops)

  • Legal status for military/college

  • Elimination of country caps

Women

  • Reproductive rights (abortion coverage/contraception coverage and availability)

  • Employment (equal pay/pregnancy discrimination/breast pump space)

  • Healthcare (mammograms/breast cancer/nopays for preventative care)

  • Sexual assault and domestic violence (VAWA/military programs/expansion of definition of rape/homelessness prevention for domestic violence victims)

  • Military (expansion of roles for women/equipment like body armor to fit women)

Poor

  • Employment assistance (worker training/new WPA or other job corps/tax credits for employers hiring someone unemployed or on public assistance/create “empowerment zones” providing tax credits for companies going into impoverished areas)

  • Unemployment benefits

  • Housing assistance (renters/homelessness/heating assistance/Home Energy Assistance Program/Affordable Housing Trust Fund/foreclosure assistance/tax credit for the creation of low-income housing

  • Nutrition (expansion of SNAP benefits/SNAP at farmer’s markets/free and reduced lunch benefits)

  • Education (Head Start/access to art, economics, civics, and foreign language classes/TRIO programs and outreach to disadvantaged students)

  • Healthcare (Children’s Health Insurance Program/Medicaid expansion/dental coverage/support for community health centers/continuous open enrollment for Medicaid and CHIP)

  • Expanded access to child care

  • Broadband access for low-income communities

  • Minimum wage increase

  • Free tax prep for low-income individuals and families and financial literacy programs

  • TANF benefit extensions

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