Vocabulary
Policies And Programs
Economic's Social Welfare
100
The "shares" of the national income earned by various groups.
What is Income Distribution?
100
Provides health benefits to the poor.
What is Medicaid?
100
A tax by which the government takes the same share of income from everyone, rich and poor alike.
What is Proportional Tax?
200
Government benefits that certain qualified individuals are entitled to by law, regardless of need.
What is Entitlement Programs?
200
Enacted to meet the needs of people in our society with disabilities.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
200
A tax by which the government takes a greater share of the income of the rich than of the poor.
What is Progressive Tax?
300
Policies that provide benefits to individuals, either through entitlements or means testing.
What is Social Welfare Policies?
300
Available to those below the poverty line.
What is the Means Test program?
300
A tax in which the burden falls relatively more heavily on low-income groups than on wealthy taxpayers. Opposite of a progressive tax.
What is Regressive Tax?
400
The method to estimated minimum level of income needed to secure the necessities of life
What is Poverty Line?
400
It formed the Social Security program and a national assistance program for poor families.
What is the Social Security Act of 1935?
400
A negative income tax that grants income to the very poor instead of charging them federal income taxes.
What is Earned Income Tax Credit?
500
The increasing concentration of poverty among women, especially unmarried women and their children.
What is Feminization of Poverty?
500
Employees' pay, male or female, would be the same rate and be under the same conditions.
What is Equal Pay Act?
500
Benefits given by the government directly to individuals.
What is Transfer Payments?
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