“Nothing,” Benjamin Franklin said, “is certain in life but death and this.”
What are taxes?
100
These government programs are available only to individuals below a poverty line.
What are means-tested programs?
100
A tax that takes a higher percentage from the lower income levels than tom the well-to-do is called this.
What is a regressive tax?
100
This is the percentage of Americans in poverty in 2012.
What is 15.9%?
100
This is the fastest-growing age group in America.
What are 80- to 90-year-old Americans.
200
This president declared a national war on poverty.
Who is President Johnson?
200
The Social Security Act was enacted in this year.
What is 1935?
200
The U.S. Bureau of the Census has established this, which takes into account what a family would need to spend to maintain an "austere" standard of living.
What is the poverty line?
200
Western European taxes exceed this percentage of income.
What is 50%?
200
These payments consist of cash and in-kind benefits from the government.
What are transfer payments?
300
When public support for some welfare programs was eroding this president chose to target poverty programs as one major way to cut government spending.
Who is President Reagan?
300
The two biggest of these programs are Social Security and Medicare.
What are entitlement programs?
300
The progressive federal taxes and the state regressive taxes tend to cancel one another out, leaving the net effect of taxes on people's income, or this, in the United States proportional.
What is tax incidence?
300
In 2010, the average TANF recipient receives this much money per month.
What is $392?
300
This program receives the most funding.
What is Medicare?
400
President Bush pushed for welfare reform legislation that permitted states to use of their money for programs to promote this.
What is marriage?
400
Expansion of Social Security and the increase in its benefits have significantly reduced poverty among the elderly. Today, these people greatly outnumber the elderly amend the ranks of the poor.
Who are single mothers and their children?
400
This is a mantra of the modern Republican Party.
What are tax cuts?
400
This fraction of America's wealth is held by the wealthiest 1% of the population.
What is 1/3?
400
Social Security was begun in the United States as part of this.
What is New Deal?
500
Poverty scholar Harrell Rogers calls doing this the "superhighway to poverty."
What is having children out of wedlock?
500
Recipients of this federal welfare program are required to find employment within 24 months of receiving aid.
What is Temporary Assistance for Needy Families?
500
This is a "negative income tax" that provides income to very poor individuals in lieu of charging them federal income taxes.
What is Earned Income Tax Credit?
500
This is the lifetime maximum of years on welfare set by the PRWORA.
What is five years?
500
McCarty, Poole, and Rosenthal argue that American politics is becoming more polarized and that the main conflict is over this.