Presidents
The president working to pass the Build Back Better Plan.
Who is Joe Biden?
The program that provided relief to freed slaves.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The poor are lazy, intemperate, and deserving of punishment and humiliation.
What is Poverty as Crime?
The year the United State's official measure of poverty was created.
What is 1964.
The state can provide additional optional services for this program.
What is Medicaid?
The president responsible for the New Deal programs.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
The 1964 act that the Department of Agriculture oversees.
What is the Food Stamp Act?
Poverty is attributed to personal attributes.
What is Culture of Poverty?
The multiplier used to get the monetary amount for the poverty threshold.
What is 3?
This program prevents extreme poverty among the elderly and disabled.
What is SSI?
The president who put the Great Society program in place.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This 1933 act that was directed by social worker Harry Hopkins.
What is the FERA?
The poor have inadequate and/or outdated skills and experience.
What is Human Capital?
This plan is meant to be temporary and as such, is inadequate for sustaining health over an extended period of time.
What is the Economy Food Plan?
The California State Benefit version of this program is CalFresh.
What is SNAP?
The president who initiated the "War on Welfare."
Who is Richard Nixon?
In 1950, the Aid to Dependent children program expanded to this.
What is the ADFC?
Poverty is a necessity for capitalist industrial economies.
What is Poverty as Motivation?
Critique: The poverty threshold does not consider income to include in-kind benefits (ex: food stamps, housing assistance, and medical).
What is Overestimating the Extent of Poverty?
This group of individuals is excluded from participating in TANF.
This president thought of welfare recipients as “cheats” and “freeloaders” and declared the war on poverty was over.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
The acronym for the Act that changed AFDC to TANF.
What is PRWORA?
Poverty is an integral part of the human condition, not a failure on an individual or society’s part
What are Religious Teachings?
Easy to administer and its long-term use allows for historic comparisons.
What is the Federal Poverty Threshold?
TANF and SSI recipients automatically qualify for this program.
What are Medicaid and SNAP?