History
The first social programs in the U.S. were operated by these groups starting in colonial times and then also by this other group starting during the Industrial Revolution - setting the stage for a strong and persistent American philanthropy sector.
Faith-based groups/churches and wealthy families, specifically wealthy white women
Maslow created this theory in 1943 that begins with basic physiological needs at the bottom and ends with self-actualization at the top.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs / Motivational Theory (1943)
This Act passed in 1935, and part of the New Deal suite of programs, guaranteed working adults (taxpayers) a monthly payment after their age of retirement.
Social Security Act
This controversial 1965 report on Black poverty in the United States became a central influence on President Lyndon B. Johnson's 'Great Society' programs.
The Moynihan Report
Elise's two dogs are named __ and ___.
Two key social movements shaped the provisions included within the final New Deal legislation package in the 1930s. Name one.
Labor and Farmers Movements
These three types of theory are typically engaged when discussing social policy content and process.
Economic, Sociological and Political
The Affordable Care Act (2010) aimed to expand this key program which helps about 80 million low-income people in the United States to access healthcare, based on state eligibility.
Medicaid
In 1910, this report was published at the request of the Carnegie Foundation, radically shifting medical education in the U.S.
The Flexner Report
This system was started by broadcast journalists in the late 1990s at the local level in order to alert the community when a child went missing.
The AMBER Alert System
This social program was the first ever to be funded and implemented by the Federal government.
Veterans benefits from the Civil War.
This theory allows us to examine our “stocks of knowledge” and re-assess them for veracity (truth) in the context of power (Dugan 2017)
Critical Social Theory (CST)
In the 1970s, Ruby Duncan and the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) organized eat-ins on the Las Vegas strip to protest Nevada politicians kicking families off of this social program.
Food Stamps (SNAP Benefits)
This Latin phrase roughly translates to ‘friend of the court’ - a way to signal support and offer expertise on the legal question(s) at hand.
amici curiae
A social welfare program that is administered based on income-level is referred to as what kind of program?
means-tested
In Goldberg v. Kelly (1968) the Supreme Court decided welfare recipients have what rights?
Welfare recipients have due process rights entitling them to advance notice of benefits termination, reasons for their elimination from the rolls, and an opportunity to rebut those reasons in a state hearing
“Revolution begins when people who are defined as problems achieve the power to redefine the problem.”
Who said this?
John McKnight (1995) - The Careless Society
A,B,C, and D - this multi-part program ensures basic healthcare and prescription benefits for adults over a certain age in the U.S.
Medicare
Established by the Affordable Care Act (2010), this type of Medicaid offering allows states to create their own programs toward increasing access to healthcare without opting in to traditional Medicaid expansion. Georgia's Pathways Program is an example.
Moulton, Sandfort & Merrick (2018) describe the pros and cons of these two evaluation methods to test the efficacy of social policy interventions.
Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) and Pragmatic Evaluation
Rhode Island was the first state to mandate fathers of children born out of wedlock to pay child support in this century.
18th (1752)
In the Gospel of Wealth, this titan of industry suggested the following: “By taxing estates heavily at death the state marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life. This policy would work powerfully to induce the rich man to attend to the administration of wealth during his life, which is the end that society should always have in view, as being that by far most fruitful for the people.”
Andrew Carnegie (1889)
Public opinion research shows that there is broader support for state-issued apologies than for monetary appropriations for this type of social policy.
Reparations Policy
When program beneficiaries are included in the program design process from conception through evaluation, and back again, this is called what?
Co-production
Who wrote this definition of Social Policy?
"A policy that aims to address systemic societal issues and inequalities to improve the wellbeing of diverse communities by addressing social structures that encompass environment, identities, cultures that individuals occupy and live in."
This Class!