Illinois Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

  Identify a different problem or issue (local or state) that needs political attention through policy action. Once you've identified the issue, you will be constructing an issue brief on the proposed policy action. Your 3-5 page issue brief should be constructed using the attached template and should cover the following sections: • Brief history of the issue • General accounting of the current problem (stated in one or two sentences) • The options available for addressing the problem • Whether there are current applicable policies that need to be expanded, adjusted or eliminated • What actors are currently involved with the issue and where support currently exists • What your recommendations are and how you would propose moving the policy forward (i.e., what support needs to be built, what channels does it need to go through, which of the options listed above are most feasible, etc.)