Poverty, Analyzing/Researching, and Impact of Policy Practice
A condition where household income falls below the poverty line
Absolute Poverty
Middle age person caring for both parents and children
What is sandwich generations?
Title for professionals serving children who must report suspicions of abuse and neglect
What is Mandated Reporters?
A set of ideas or bodies of thought we use for guidance
What is an ideology?
Laws to correct historical imbalances
What is affirmative action?
The act of persuading policy makers
What is lobbying?
Official name for Obamacare
What is Patient Protection and Affordability Act?
What is doing harm (abuse) and withholding resources (neglect)?
Established to provide relief to the newly freed slaves
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
What is the unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners?
Examples of positive policies
What is compulsory education, public safety, and retirement?
A larger share of income is taken from the poor and middle class than the rich
What is a regressive tax?
Provides federal funding to states to support prevention, assessment, investigation, prosecution, and treatment activities
Approach to providing welfare that means intervening only when there is a problem
What is residual?
Benefits received not in cash
What are in-kind benefits?
Service workers who implement and have tremendous influence on how policies are implemented
What is street level bureaucrats?
Mandates that employees and employers pay into Social Security
What is the Federal Insurance Contribution Act?
4 sources of income for retirees
What is Social Security, pension, private investments, and continued employment?
Known for her work in the Charity Organization Societies that examined theory and method in identifying the problems in clients
Who is Mary Richmond?
Funding to help communities and individuals grow and develop that has the assumption that it will pay off in the long-run
What is social investment?
Standardized work hours and controlled child labor (introduced in 1938)
What is the Fair Labor Standard Act?
Three types of unemployment
What is Frictional, Cyclical, and Structural?
Two types of pensions
What is defined contribution and defined benefit?
Those in power use welfare programs to control the behavior of those in poverty
What is social control?
Laws in place to track discriminatory actions and punish perpetrators
What are hate crime laws?