Exam 5: Poverty and Inequality

Most Medicaid expenditures are used for

What is meant by the term "less eligibility?" Which belief about poverty does this term reflect?

Under the PRWORA, states were permitted to use their TANF block grant to encourage two-parent families.

The Section 8 housing program

Under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, AFDC, Food Stamps, and Medicaid were converted from federal entitlements to block grants to the states.

Nixon's "Family Assistance Plan"

Estimates of the extent of homelessness based on a point-in-time approach are typically _________ than those based on a period-prevalence approach.

Able-bodied adults without children are not eligible for food stamps.

The Food Stamp program is administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Federal Poverty Threshold is an absolute measure of inequality.

Most Americans living in poverty are people of color.

The federal program known as Aid to Dependent Children

Jane Addams was a leader in

The establishment of Social Security stimulated the U.S. economy and brought an end to the Great Depression.

Early Christian relief efforts were based in part on the belief that providing charity was good for the rich.

The Federal Poverty Threshold is based on the expectation that a family will spend about _____ of its income on food.

Discuss how the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 became the foundation for US poverty interventions.

In England, the Statute of Labourers passed in 1348 was a response to

In 2011, more than half of Americans with incomes below poverty received food stamps.

Most of America's poor live in rural settings.