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
