Dr.Tremendous
Policy Reasoning Lab

Who lights up when policy changes?

Pick a claim about an agricultural minimum wage. The board flips from quiet to illuminated, showing who benefits, who bears pressure, who has mixed incentives, and whose concerns are missing.

Your Task

For each claim, classify every stakeholder as benefiting, bearing pressure, facing mixed incentives, needing more evidence, or missing from the claim. Then use the reveal to explain what would have to be true for your answer to hold.

Remember the labor market

In the farm labor market, the wage is the price. Workers supply labor. Farms demand labor. A minimum wage is a price floor in the labor market; then you trace possible spillovers into food markets.

Evaluate a claim

Board key

Benefits directly
Bears cost or pressure
Mixed — helped and hurt at the same time
Depends — direction unknown until you have evidence
Missing — not addressed by the claim (stays grey)
Who benefits? Who bears pressure? Who is missing?
Worker

Farmworker

Predict

Do I get higher pay, and can I keep enough hours?

Choose a claim to begin. Then predict how this stakeholder will react.
Farm

Producer

Predict

Can I harvest on time without losing my margin?

Choose a claim to begin. Then predict how this stakeholder will react.
Shopper

Consumer

Predict

Will food prices rise, and by how much?

Choose a claim to begin. Then predict how this stakeholder will react.
Store

Retailer

Predict

Can I pass costs along without losing shoppers?

Choose a claim to begin. Then predict how this stakeholder will react.
Policy

Policymaker

Predict

What tradeoff can I defend publicly?

Choose a claim to begin. Then predict how this stakeholder will react.
Advocate

Advocate

Predict

Are low food prices depending on low-wage labor?

Choose a claim to begin. Then predict how this stakeholder will react.

Waiting for a claim

The strongest answers name the labor-market flip: workers supply labor, farms demand labor, and wage is the price. Then they trace who gains, who bears costs, and where spillovers may appear.

Choose a claim to begin
Benefits 0
Bears pressure 0
Mixed 0
Depends 0

Reasoning checklist

Use this as the exit-ticket layer after the board lights up.

· Names the labor-market flip: workers supply, farms demand.
· Identifies the direct wage benefit to workers.
· Connects labor costs to the food market.
· Explains that price pass-through is conditional.
· Names conditions such as elasticity, market power, contracts, or mechanization.

Explanations

After the reveal, click any lit stakeholder tile to see why the board labeled it that way.

Reveal a heatmap, then click a stakeholder tile.