AP Gov Chapter 19 Study Guide Questions
Two phases of the New Deal
1. Boosted prices and lowered unemployment 2. Long-term reform: included program of social insurance to help poor and elderly
How did stagflation jeopardize the social security system in the 1970's?
1. unemployment meant a reduction in revenue; high inflations meant automatically growing benefits 2. A lower birth rate meant that in the future, fewer workers would be available to support the pool of retirees, and the number of retirees would grow as average life spans lengthened and the baby-boom generation retired
Medicaid
A state and federal program that provides health coverage if you have a very low income
Concerns motivating change
Equity and national security and prosperity are the two main factors related to freedom, order, and equality that have prompted greater federal involvement in the nation's elementary and secondary schools in the last half century
George W. Bush's administration
Expanded social welfare on some topics
Stagflation
High employment coupled with high inflation
President Reagan's solution in 1983 to the Social Security crisis
Increased taxes, reduced benefits
When did social welfare programs begin?
Industrial Revolution
What happened when stagflation took place in the 1970's?
It jeopardized the entire social security system
Who pays for the social security system?
People that are working
Who benefits from the social security system?
People who are retiring
Who established a middle ground between economic equality and economic freedom?
President Clinton; tightened funds for starting or making large social welfare programs
Who launched the Great Society and why?
President Lyndon Johnson in order to combat political, social, and economic inequality though civil rights legislation, aid to education, and the War of Poverty
Who moved the the emphasis from economic equality to economic freedom?
President Reagon
Children's schooling resides in...
Primarily in state and local governments in the US
Modern social welfare
Received a large push from the Great Depression and New Deal programs
What is the difference between social insurance programs and public assistance programs?
Social insurance is government-backed protection against loss by individuals, regardless of need. public assistance is government aid to individuals who demonstrate a need for that aid. Social insurance programs do not pay attention to need, while public assistance programs are based on need
Problems with social security
Stagflation-unemployment means a reduction in revenue, inflation, low birth rate means less people in the future, fewer workers are supporting the pool of retirees
Medicare
federal program that provides health coverage if you are 65 or older or have severe disability, no matter your income
