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| What are the characteristics of Majoritarian Welfare Programs? |
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Consists of programs benefiting most of the people with no means test
Ex. Medicare and Social Security |
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| What are the characteristics of Client Welfare Programs? |
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Consists of programs benefiting a small amount of people with a means test
Ex. Medicaid and Food Stamps |
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| What is biggest problem plaguing majoritarian politics? |
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| What is biggest problem affecting client-based programs? |
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| How is government action affected by client-based programs? |
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| Characterized by changes in political appeal as popular opinion changes |
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| What is Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) characterized by? |
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| Characterized by initially helping support fatherless children as a result of war or mining accidents to unmarried women with children born out-of-wedlock |
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| What are the 3 distinctive features of American Social Welfare Policy? |
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1. Restrictive American view to entitlement of funds
2. Speed of the arrival of welfare
3. Role of Federalism |
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| What are some characteristics of English welfare Policy? |
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| Characterized by and old-age pension system in 1908, followed by national health and unemployment insurance, liberal parliamentary regime, emergence of British Labour Party, and lack of state governments |
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| What are the two conflicting views of beneficiaries of social welfare? |
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| " fair share " vs. "helping the deserving poor" |
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| When did welfare policy arrive in the United States? |
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| 1935 passage of the Social Security Act |
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| What are some characteristics of the American progressive movement? |
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| Included labor concentration on organizing itself and Progressive belief in emphasizing the reform of the political process and breaking up industrial trusts |
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| What is the role of federalism in American Social Welfare? |
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| Allowed states to experiment with welfare programs because of a lack of Constitutional welfare provisions |
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| What is a mother's pension? |
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| A program in which a widow with children was given financial assistance if she was a "fit mother" with a "suitable home" |
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| What are the 2 programs that fall under Majoritarian Welfare Programs? |
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Definition
| Medicare and Social Security |
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Term
| What is the role of Cabinet Committee on Economic Security created by Roosevelt? |
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Definition
| To consider long-term policies using the influence of European nation experience as well as ideas of American scholars adapted to realities of American politics |
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| What were the 2 major provisions of the Social Security of 1935? |
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| Insurance Program and Assistance Program |
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| What is an insurance program? |
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| A self-financing government program based on contributions that provide benefits to unemployed or retired persons regardless of income |
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| What is an assistance program? |
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| A government program financed by general income taxes that provides benefits to poor citizens without requiring contributions from them and is means tested |
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Term
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| A means test is a measure to determine that incomes are below a certain level |
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Term
| What was the issue of medical care? |
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Definition
| Consisted of the idea of using government funds to pay the medical and hospital bills of the elderly and the poor. Needed approval of House Ways and Means Committee |
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Term
| What was the Medicare plan? |
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| Consisted of eligibility for the plan given to those eligible for Social Security benefits and coverage by plan of only hospital expenses and expanded Ways and Means Committee |
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Term
| What programs are Insurance/"contributory" programs? |
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| What programs are Assistance/ "Noncontributory" Programs? |
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| Unemployment Insurance(UI), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Medicaid, and Earned Income Tax Credit |
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| What is the key problem with Social Security? |
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Definition
| Characterized by a rise in retirees and a decrease in the number of people paying Social Security taxes to provide the necessary benefits |
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Term
| What are the solutions to be key problem with Social Security? |
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Definition
| Raise the retirement age, freeze the amount of retirement benefits, raise Social Security benefits, privatize Social Security through Stock Market investment, and permit citizens to invest some Social Security taxes in specific mutual funds |
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| What is the key problem with Medicare? |
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| Characterized by large cost and by low efficiency in paying for health care |
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| What are the solutions to the key problem with Medicare? |
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Definition
| Remove Medicare and centralize health care or allow elderly to take Medicare money to buy health insurance from private suppliers, including HMOS |
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| What is the program that falls under Client Welfare Programs? |
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Definition
| Aid to Families with Dependent Children |
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| What is an Earned Income Tax Credit? |
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Definition
| A Cash grant to poor parents who were working |
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| What is a service strategy? |
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| A policy of providing poor people with education and job training to help lift them out of poverty |
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| What is an income strategy? |
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| A policy of giving poor people money to help lift them out of poverty |
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| States that Welfare increases the amount of poverty by encouraging family break-up and out-of-wedlock births |
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| What was the major debate in 1935 and 1965 about? |
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| Referred to the legitimacy of the government in providing social welfare programs |
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| What was the view point of conservatives in the 1935 and 1965 debates? |
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| Medical care is a private matter |
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| What was the major viewpoint of liberals in the 1935 and 1965 debates? |
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| Government has duty to serve the elderly and the poor with assistance and insurance programs |
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