Defined as financial government assistance to businesses
What is Corporate Welfare?
100
Social welfare is typically thought of as serving these people
Who are the low income/lower class/the poor?
100
To benefit from these types of programs, you must prove your need of aid/eligibility.
What are means-tested programs?
100
The IRS is an acronym for...
What is Internal Revenue Service?
100
This type of welfare replaced occupational welfare from the Titmuss article.
What is Corporate Welfare?
200
Which of the following represents one of the largest government aids to corporations?
A. UB School of Social Work Tuition
B. Military (research/development of arms)
C. Childcare benefits
What is the B. Military?
200
SNAP is an acronym for...
What is Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program?
200
Name the 2 main healthcare programs under the social welfare system.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
200
Tax expenditures favor these people.
What is upper and middle class?
200
The year Bush era tax cuts are set to expire.
What is the end of 2012?
300
These people primarily benefit from the capital gains tax.
Who are the richest 1% of Americans?
300
Eligibility rules for programs open to middle and upper income classes are more restrictive. True or False?
What is False?
300
Name 2 programs in the social welfare system that provide basic family support.
What is TANF, SSI, food stamps, earned income tax credit, unemployment insurance?
300
Under the fiscal welfare system, there are tax exemptions for parents of college students aged 19-23. True or False?
What is True?
300
Name 2 of the companies we discussed that have offshore tax havens.
What is...
Nike, Dell, Apple, Microsoft, Gap, Walt Disney, Eli Lilly?
400
Moving operations offshore to avoid paying taxes
What is a tax haven?
400
According to Table 3, this group earns the most in monthly social security benefits. (hint....page 300)
Who are retired men?
400
Public assistance benefits lack protection against erosion from inflation. True or False?
What is True?
400
List an example of how fiscal welfare is administered.
What are tax exemptions, deductions and credits?
400
The author of this article you were assigned to read.
Who is Mimi Abramovitz?
500
List 3 ways corporations can receive government aid.
What is...
- money for advertising
- building new facilities
- worker training
- write off of perks
- support for research and development
- discounted user fee for public resources
- direct government grants
500
This propels marginalized groups to turn to public assistance for help (think on a macro level).
What are...
-racial and gender divides
-These people predominate lower wage jobs because of discrimination.
-As a result, they are forced to utilize public assistance programs, which perpetuates the stigmatization back to the marginalized.
500
Our public policy has depicted who as deserving and undeserving.
What is...
Jobless adults, single mothers, etc. are viewed as undeserving.
Disabled, elderly, widows, etc. are viewed as deserving.
500
These are the reasons fiscal welfare attracts less public attention than social welfare programs...
What are...
-they require neither Congressional appropriations or re-authorizations.
-many benefits are funded through obscure off budget devices
-create little, if any, new bureaucracy.
500
People disguise income as capital gains in order to....