Theoretical Approaches

In my last blog I touched upon the ways that different public advocacy groups advocate the issue on raising or not raising the minimum wage to the public.  In my previous blog that main organization that I talked about was NELP( the national employment law project). NELP promotes polices that strengthen jobs, help unemployed workers and create job. I also talked about republicans and democrats  whom are are or against the wage.   There are many different ways to go about approaching the public and providing the best insight while in lightening them with information. 

Elizabeth Warren is a senator for Massachusetts and is also a member of the Democratic Party. Warren believes  that the minimum wage should be changed to $22 dollars an hour if would have kept up with history. Warren stated "If we starting in 1960 and we said that as productivity goes up, that is as workers are producing more, then the minimum wage is going to go up the same...then the minimum wage today would be about $22 an hour." Warren uses history to back up her evidence and uses evidence of the past to try and reach her audiance she mainly tries to focus on facts and what is known to be true. 

Persuasion is constantly surrounding us thanks to Aristotle and Plato. Campinas and persuasive messages are almost constantly surrounding us. Plato's believes that humans do not see truth directly and used dialogic approach to purse the truths. He believes that truth is something that is arrived at through dialogue.  I believe that NELP uses this theoretical approach because they  use dialogue to answer questions from the opposing views side to persuade their public and allows the public to understand both views of the argument. NELP seeks the interest of their listeners and targets its main audience of the people who work at places like Dunkin Donuts, Pizza Hut, Walmart because these people are there target audience and it is the people that the minimum wage is mainly effecting. NELP tries to resolve disagreement by educating the public by doing campings all around the country about both sides of the spectrum. NELP has the interest of the people in mind  and urges the public to show up at town hall meetings, call the congress' office and write a letter to the newspaper's editor because the more the word is out there, the more likely it will be hear. I believe that NELP uses Plato's dialogic approach to reach their audience because they want to establish truth and they make there arguments by reason. NELP's facts are clearly advocated and their values are credible.Like Plao, NELP favors truth by cross examining both sides of the argument which makes them more credible.

After look at all the theoretical approaches I realized what ways work best make arguments to people is through the truth and what is best for them because it makes you more credible.