Exam 28: Making State and Local Policy

Which of the following is of such great concern to so many people, and there are so many ideas with how it ought to be run that it is almost impossible to remove politics from it?

States pay 80 percent of federal _______________.

The text defines mandatory tests for grade advancement as

States fund a majority of federal environmental programs.

Institutions of higher education have more independence from political oversight than public schools.

Only the state and local governments worry about working conditions.

Critics of urban and state planning are skeptical about whether governors, mayors, or state and local legislators can prevent what they sometimes call the "____________" of the United States.

When adopted in 1965, _________ was designed as a program to enable states to fund health care for people who were poor and receiving public assistance.Since then, the eligibility has expanded.

The group Community Greens helps individuals live fuller, more eco-friendly lives.

Federal law enforcement agencies include which of the following?

Which of the following was NOT a federally adopted environmental plan of the 1970s?

Programs that provide payments to poor families with children are typically what people mean by the term incentives.

States compete with one another because economic development is the key to increasing the ________ that funds government services.

The basic model of environmental regulation has been for the state governments to set individual standards for water and air quality.

The chief supplier(s) of student financial aid in the U.S.is (are)

Workfare programs are designed to help welfare recipients pay for expenses that go along with work like transportation and clothing.

Philosophically, the issue of private charity initially fit well with traditional U.S.notions of limited government and self-reliance.That view changed dramatically during ___________.

The first true American state police system was

In 1996, the federal government ended

One area in which states are increasingly responsible for environmental policy is