Health
Food and Nutrition
Economic Opportunity
Budget and Taxes
Child Well Being
100
This is defined as a disturbance in an individual’s cognitions, emotions, or behaviors that can cause significant dysfunction
What is mental illness?
100
The amount of Texans that receive food stamps.
What is 3.5M?
100
What % of Texans earn a middle class income or higher?
What is 30%?
100
Texas' rank on state spending per resident.
What is 47th?
100
A family of three has to make less than this amount to be considered officially poor.
What is $18,123/year.
200
Of the nearly 3.2 million Texas children between ages 9 to 17 years in 2012, this many children/adolescents (%) had some type of diagnosable mental disorder.
What is 20%?
200
The % of students that received a free or reduced price lunch from school cafeterias.
What is 60%?
200
The block grant Texas receives from the federal government that Texas uses on helping low-income families.
What is Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)?
200
Most of the support for public schools comes from this.
What is State (43%), Local taxes (41%), and Federal (12%)? Followed by 4% from other and 2% from state lottery.
200
Texas child poverty rate is this %.
What is 27%. (The US average is 23%)
300
In 2010, the Texas Department of State Health Services found that more than 1.7 million Texas adults had a chemical dependency to this substance.
What is alcohol?
300
The School Breakfast Program is federally financed by who?
What is The United States Department of Agriculture?
300
Name 3 TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) programs.
What is cash assistance, child care services, family support programs, adult education and training services, and pre-kindergarten and extended day programs?
300
The state of Texas raises the most amount of money through what tax.
What is sales tax?
300
The % of kids that live in single-parent families in Texas.
What is 1 in 3.
400
This act states that beginning in 2014, insurers will no longer be able to deny coverage or raise premium costs for mental health conditions or other health status or health history factors.
What is Affordable Health Care Act?
400
The three level of assistance/reimbursement provided by the School Breakfast Program are?
What is free, reduced, and paid?
400
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) provides cash assistance services to?
What is poor families with children? (An adult without a child is not eligible for cash assistance.)
400
The % of Texas Students that are economically disadvantaged.
What is 59.2%?
400
61 in 1000 is this. (Hint: has to do with Texas Teens)
What is Texas teens having babies. (The Texas average of Texas Teens having babies is nearly twice the size of the US average)
500
Texas has the highest percentage of what? (In terms of health)
What is uninsured patients?
500
The percent of Texas Schools that have implemented the School Breakfast Program.
What is 25%?
500
Once an adult reaches the time limit on receiving cash assistance from TANF, the adult recipient becomes ineligible to receive benefits for how many years?
What is 5 years?
500
Taxes are judged according to fairness, meaning the person with the most ability to pay taxes pays more. (The higher income families would be paying more taxes.) Texas has this type of tax system (Progressive, Regressive, Proportional, Flat) and this number ranking in that bracket. (25th most progressive, 15th most regressive, etc.)
What is the 5th most regressive state and local tax?
500
Name one of the three primary PEI (Prevention and Early Intervention) programs to prevent child abuse and neglect.
What is (1) Texas Families Together and Safe (TFTS); (2) Family Strengthening Services (FSS); and (3) Community Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP).
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