Exam 9: Welfare and Social Security Policy

Has welfare reform been a success? Discuss the program's goals and what it intended to accomplish. Can the success or failure of the program be attributed to the welfare reform law? What other issues should be examined?

Privatization of Social Security is one of the major proposals for reform. Privatization refers to ______.

The primary goal of all welfare and social security programs is to ______.

Which statement describes how most welfare programs are financed and implemented?

Over the past two decades, which statement best describes the income distribution of U.S. citizens?

One of the major risks that opponents criticize regarding the proposal to partially privatize Social Security funding is that ______.

Poverty in the United States came to a head during ______.

Which of the following describes what is known about the effectiveness of the TANF legislation?

Why has there been such difference of opinion regarding entitlement programs such as Social Security and welfare? Identify which program has been popular and largely successful and which is seen as the opposite and explain the reasons.

Social Security is often referred to as the political ______.

With the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program became ______.

The welfare reform act of 1996 (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families [TANF]) emphasized ______.

Describe two ways that can be used to measure poverty, the new measure that has been proposed, and implications of implementing a new measure of poverty.

Political perspectives on the root causes of poverty vary. Conservatives tend to see poverty as a result of ______, while liberals are more likely to believe that poverty is the result of ______.

Children make up only 25% of the population, but they comprise ______% of the nation's poor. A. 15 B. 35 C. 46 D. 55

There are approximately ______ people living in poverty in the United States in 2010.

The Social Security tax is capped at an annual income of ______.

When it comes to reforming Social Security financing, most objections raised by interest groups on both sides have to do with the evaluative criterion of ______.

______ means that those brought up in poverty learn how to be poor and work the current system to their benefit and that they choose to remain poor as adults.

For 2016, the federal government placed a family of four below the poverty line if its annual income was less than ______ in the 48 contiguous states.