Exam 18: Policymaking and Domestic Policy

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 provided national government aid to local school districts in order to improve the education of which group?

Outline the goals of No Child Left Behind, and discuss the criticisms that have been made of its development and implementation. Also, discuss the Every Student Succeeds Act and the changes that have been implemented to it.

What is the name of the recent major health-care law mandating that individuals have health insurance?

In order to combat the high costs of a college education, direct federal loans to college students were considered. This is an example of which of the following?

Which of the following is a problem with the block grant funding program set up by TANF?

How high did American unemployment reach at the depths of the Great Depression?

What occurs during the policy formulation stage of the policymaking process?

Can the Affordable Care Act be considered a program of national health insurance?

Discuss the Bush and Obama administrations' proposals for legislation that would allow undocumented immigrants to become citizens. Explain the arguments against those proposals.

Discuss efforts taken by Congress and President Trump to deal with the issue of illegal immigration. Compare this to the efforts taken under the Obama administration.

Receiving input from hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and other parts of the medical industry that would be impacted by health-care reform policies would occur in which phase of the policymaking process?

Which of the following is an example of an entitlement program?

The federal government will no longer set performance goals, determine if schools are meeting them, or decide what to do if they aren't met as a result of which of the following laws?

What did the Economic Opportunity Act (1964) encourage local programs to do?

Critics of social welfare spending have long argued that antipoverty policies result in which of the following?

When the federal government addresses issues such as poverty and health care, it is concerned with which of the following types of policy?

The assessment of policy effectiveness and making needed adjustments to improve after a given period of time is part of which step in the policymaking process?

Which of the following best describes how a pay-as-you-go system is financed?

Which of the following would help control health-care costs?

The Affordable Health Care Act has not been fully implemented, meaning which stage of the policymaking process cannot yet be achieved?