Social Policy Final

Elizabethan Poor Law was enacted in:

1601

The group least likely to have insurance by age:

18-24

Social security act was passed in:

1935

Medicaid and Medicare was enacted in:

1965

PRWORA was passed in:

1996

TANF replaced which former income maintenance program?

AFDC

What act caused: -Obamacare, low income families who purchase health insurance will be eligible for subsidies -Insurers will be prohibited from denying coverage to anyone with a preexisting condition

Affordable Care Act 2010

Who enacted the Marriage Initiative

Bush

Deficit reduction act of 2005 included $150m/year for promoting 'healthy marriage' and fatherhood

Bush marriage initiative

The woman associated with Hull House and the Nobel Peace Prize

Jane Adams

Who: Expansion of social welfare programs, war poverty, greater society, head start program

Johnson

Time limit, family cap, prohibiting drug related felons from receiving benefits

Key features of PRWORA

Enacted the earned income tax credit

Nixon

Who: Conservatism, budget cut on social welfare, privatization

Reagan

targets low income children, not covered by medicaid

Stated Children's Health Insurance Program

The personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act (PPORA) of 1996 changed federal funding for cash assistance to poor families to:

a blick grant program

The high cost of unemployment during the 70s and 80s led to a shift in public welfare programs to:

a return of the residual approach to the problems of the poor

Definitions of poverty that are based on calculations derived from the minimum costs of housing, clothing, food and transportation are called:

absolute poverty

Who: Welfare reform and PRWORA

clinton

single largest predictor of beginning on welfare

divorce or separation

3 key principles of elizabethan poor law:

family responsibility local responsibility classification of poor

_________ were primarily female volunteers from the business and professional classes who did home visits to investigate and document family needs

friendly visitors

What is US health care driven by?

idealogical and fiscal variables

The primary underlying principle from the English Poor Laws which is evident in the development of American welfare policies is:

its emphasis on work and workforce participation

The most widely abused drug in the United States excluding tobacco is:

marijuana

means tested, public assistance program aimed toward aiding the poor

medicaid

Designed to provide elderly people with prepaid hospital and optional medical insurance (not means tested)

medicare

3 major public health programs

medicare medicaid s-chip program

"Residency requirements" for public assistance in colonial American meant:

one had to be a local resident to receive aid

Aid provided in a home during the American colonial era was called:

outdoor relief

The "less deserving poor" in colonial American included:

poor people who appeared able to work-able bodied poor

-not enough funds/workers paying into system -too many workers retiring

problems of current social security

The purpose of the Charity Organization Societies was to ___________, while that of the Settlement House movement was to ___________:

provide social treatment via friendly visitors; effect social reform while living amongst the poor

TANF SSI GA

public assistance

The 3 "R's" of American settlement houses were:

reform reside research

An idealogical issue regarding health care is whether access should be a ______ or a __________.

right, privilege

Old Age Survivor and Disability Insurance is commonly known as

social security

The federal method for establishing the poverty line each year is based on the assumption, made in 1963, that:

the average US household spends about one third of its taxable income on food