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Policies that provide benefits to individuals, either through entitlement or means testing. |
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| Goverment benefits that certain qualified individuals are entitled to by law, regardless of need |
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Goverment Programs available only to individuals below a poverty line. |
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The "shares" of the national income earned by various groups. |
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The amount of funds collected between any two points in time. |
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The value of assets owned |
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A method used to count the number of poor people, it considers what a family must spend for an "austere" standard of living. |
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The increasing concentration of poverty among women, especially umarried women with children. |
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A tax by which the goverment takes a greater share of the income from the rich than the poor. |
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A tax by which the goverment takes the same share of income from everybody, rich and poor alike. |
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A tax in which the burden falls relatively more heavily on low income groups that wealthly taxpayers. |
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A "negative income tax" that provides income to very poor individuals in lieu of charging them federal income taxes. |
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Benefits given by the goverment directly to individuals. Transfer payments may be either cash transfers, such as social secutiry payments and retirement payments to former goverment employees, or in-kind transfers such as food stamps and low-interest loans for college education. |
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Social Security Act of 1935 |
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Created both the Social Security Program and a national assistance program for poor children, usually called AFDC. |
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Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconcilliation Act |
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The official name of the welfare reform law of 1996. |
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Temporary Assistance to Needy Families |
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Once called "Aid to Damilies with Dependent Children", the new name for public assistance to needy families. |
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Social Security Trust Fund |
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The "band account" into which Social Security contributions are "deposited" and used to pay out eligible recipients. |
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Chapter 18
"Social Welfare Policymaking" |
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