Exam 11: Reversing the Race to the Bottom: Poverty and Policy

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What are the major causes and effects of poverty around the world? What are the elements in webs of social exclusion for the world's poor? What has been proposed to help alleviate the worst conditions of poverty around the world?

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President Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty

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Poverty in the U.S. decreased the most dramatically during

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Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was replaced in 1996 by a new program called

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Why has increasing attention been given to the plight of the working poor? Why are there so many working poor at a time of low unemployment? What is needed in wages and benefits for a family to be self-sufficient?

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Robert Kennedy read Galbraith's The Affluent Society and decided that there was no longer a poverty problem in the United States

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A key element in homelessness since the 1970s has been

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Since the 1970s, the real dollar value of the minimum wage has

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An important recent shift in the homeless population is that more of the homeless are now

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What were the major concerns, debates, and proposals surrounding healthcare reform in the United States?

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As part of the New Deal programs, the Roosevelt administration initiated

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What were major initiatives of Johnson's Great Society?

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A major concern for the Affordable Care Act was the large numbers of Americans who had no health insurance

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What were major initiatives of Roosevelt's New Deal?

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What are the major causes and effects of poverty around the world? What are the elements in webs of social exclusion for the world's poor? What has been proposed to help alleviate the worst conditions of poverty around the world?

President Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty

Poverty in the U.S. decreased the most dramatically during

Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was replaced in 1996 by a new program called

Why has increasing attention been given to the plight of the working poor? Why are there so many working poor at a time of low unemployment? What is needed in wages and benefits for a family to be self-sufficient?

Robert Kennedy read Galbraith's The Affluent Society and decided that there was no longer a poverty problem in the United States

A key element in homelessness since the 1970s has been

Since the 1970s, the real dollar value of the minimum wage has

An important recent shift in the homeless population is that more of the homeless are now

What were the major concerns, debates, and proposals surrounding healthcare reform in the United States?

As part of the New Deal programs, the Roosevelt administration initiated

What were major initiatives of Johnson's Great Society?

A major concern for the Affordable Care Act was the large numbers of Americans who had no health insurance

What were major initiatives of Roosevelt's New Deal?

The Gordian Knot of Race, Class, and Gender

The Great Debate

The Global Divide: Inequality Across Societies

Class Privilege

Racial and Ethnic Inequality

Gender and Sexual Inequality

Status Prestige

Power and Politics

Moving Up: Education and Mobility

Abandoned Spaces, Forgotten Places: Poverty and Place

Challenging the System: Social Movements in a Global Age

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