Disability Policy
This model of disability emphasizes the role of social/ environmental barriers in limiting a disabled person's ability to participate in society.
Social Model of Disability
A discriminatory lending practice that denied mortgages to predominantly minority neighborhoods.
Redlining
True/False: States are allowed to set their own minimum wage, as long as it is equal to or over the federal minimum wage.
True
This Affordable Care Act (ACA) policy allows young adults to remain on their parent's insurance until this age.
26
This practice that requires up-front payments to be released from jail while awaiting trial.
Cash Bail
This model of disability emphasizes a person's medical or psychological condition in limiting a disabled person's ability to participate in society.
Medical Model of Disability
True/False: In the 1930's The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) started using "residential security maps" to determine which neighborhoods were too risky to give loans to.
True
What is the federal minimum wage today?
$7.25/hour
True/False: After the passage of the Affordable Care Act, insurers could stop insuring individuals with pre-existing health conditions.
False
How might the practice of requiring payment to be released from jail while awaiting trial promote inequality?
those with wealth can get out while those without can't, minority communities tend to make up larger portion of those who cannot make bail
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) are both forms of monthly payments to individuals with disabilities. What is the primary qualification difference?
SSDI requires a certain amount of work history, SSI does not
Section 8 vouchers and Public Housing are both forms of subsidized housing for low income individuals. What is a primary difference between them?
Section 8 vouchers are used with private landlords, public housing are housing units owned by the government.
This program protects certain undocumented youth from deportation but is currently only accepting renewals and no new applications.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
This federal health insurance program covers low-income individuals and families.
Medicaid
These sentencing policies introduced during the "tough on crime" era require judges to sentence someone to jail/prison for at least a certain amount of time, greatly increasing prison populations.
Mandatory Minimums
This major Act requires employers and public spaces to provide reasonable accommodations to those with a disability.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
This approach to reducing homelessness places individuals in permanent housing immediately and offers optional treatment.
Housing First
True/ False: The rights of undocumented individuals are under federal guidance and therefore cannot vary state by state.
This federal health insurance program covers individuals over the age of 65.
Medicare
Explain what the "Ban the Box" initiative promotes.
Removing the criminal history section of initial job applications to give those with criminal records a better shot at employment.
Laws originating in the 19/20th centuries that essentially banned from public spaces/ institutionalized individuals with visible disabilities were informally called...
"Ugly Laws"
This approach to reducing homelessness is a system where people must complete steps, like treatment, before having access to permanent housing.
Continuum of Care (Treatment First)
Name the social movement pushes for the federal minimum wage to be increased to $15/hour.
Fight for 15
This method of addressing substance abuse include offering safe injection sites, needle exchange programs/droboxes' and Narcan distribution.
Harm Reduction
The Anti-Drug Abuse Act in the 1980's created a highly unequal sentencing disparity between possession amounts of crack cocaine and powder cocaine. What was the disparity ratio.
100:1