Exam 15: Addressing Inequality and Poverty: Programs and Reforms

"The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996":

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a cash-benefit welfare program aimed at people who are in financial need, and who are either 65 years of age or older, blind, or disabled.

The religious doctrine of Calvinism posits that:

Which of the following is NOT basic to the ideal image of the rugged individual?

Evidence suggests that affirmative action programs have:

Compare and contrast income-maintenance programs to public-assistance programs. How have these programs impacted social inequality?

How have dominant social values and the perceptions of the non-poor about poor people affected the development and nature of U.S. poverty programs?

A study of 17 countries revealed that U.S. programs were most effective in using taxes and transfers to reduce poverty among the poor.

Social insurance programs often bring about questions of fraud, laziness, and deservedness.

Before the Civil War, which of the following factors did NOT contribute to poverty?

The 1996 welfare reform reduced poverty and gave people economic and job stability.

A recent poll suggested that U.S. adults are more likely to view Hispanics as more lazy than either Blacks or Asian Americans.

Traditionally, images of the poor in the U.S.:

Which of the following is an example of a social insurance program?

Which of the following is NOT a true statement regarding the poor?

To place the reason for economic success or failure on the individual is to:

Medicaid serves at least 50 percent of the adults with AIDS and 90 percent of children with AIDS.

Of those poor who did not work at all in the United States in 1991, more than half were either ill, disabled, retired, or going to school

Medicare pays for all medical services including routine dental and long-term nursing home care.

The major source of health care for qualified poor people is: