Once Upon a Time
This president’s New Deal created many work programs as well as the Social Security Act, which included Aid to Families with Dependent Children, the precursor to TANF.
Who is FDR?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
These are the three branches of government.
What are the legislative, executive and judicial branches?
BONUS QUESTION:
The legislative branch is made of these two congressional bodies
This reform of AFDC focused on ending dependency, reducing out of wedlock pregnancies and promoting marriages.
What is TANF? or PRWORA?
Neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse and emotional abuse or neglect are all covered by federal law as this umbrella term.
What is child maltreatment?
This health insurance program, created in 1965 and jointly funded by states, provides health insurance to low-income people.
What is Medicaid?
The idea that poverty is part of natural selection, and that those most capable and hardest working will succeed while others fail reflects this 1800s philosophy.
What is Social Darwinism?
This term describes making the case that a social problem warrants a policy solution.
What is claims-making?
The formula developed by Molly Orshansky to define the poverty line assumed that families spent 1/3 of their income on this, however even at the time this was a stretch for most families and was opposed by Orshansky.
What is food? Or the “Thrifty Food Plan?”
This legislation was passed in 1978 in response to the fact that between 1969 and 1974 35% of Native American children were placed in foster home or institutions.
What is the Indian Child Welfare Act?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
This national government health insurance program, created in 1965, provides health insurance to older adults and people with disabilities.
What is Medicare?
BONUS: The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 allows the federal government to do this with drug companies for the first time.
This “society” began as “friendly visitors” to the “deserving poor” in order to attempt to change behaviors while never giving money, supposedly “not one cent.”
What is the Charity Organization Society?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
The idea that government should ensure all basic needs of all people are adequately met, reflects this approach to social welfare.
What is an institutional approach?
BONUS: Conversely, the idea that government should intervene only when all else fails reflects this approach.
This British economist’s theories that government should increase spending during recessions was heeded by Franklin D Roosevelt and many Democratic presidents since.
Who Is John Maynard Keynes?
This term is used to describe children living with family without a parent, often due to involvement with the child welfare system.
What is kinship care?
This 2010 legislation significantly expanded Medicaid as well as created the Health Insurance Marketplace, prohibited denying coverage due to preexisting conditions, allowed young people to stay on their parents’ insurance plan until age 25 and created a penalty for uninsured Americans.
What is the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare or The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?
During this approximately 7-year long period after the Civil War, emancipated slaves had opportunities to own land, vote, go to school and begin to accumulate assets.
What is Reconstruction?
During a time of crisis or significant change, this may be metaphorically open for a time and legislators may be more easily convinced to act.
What is window of opportunity?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
One poverty line that determines whether one is or is not living in poverty for the full 48 contiguous United States reflects this type of measure.
What is absolute poverty?
BONUS: Considering one to be “poor” if their income is below 50% of their county’s median reflects this measure type of measure.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
This legislation, passed in 1974, was the first federal social policy addressing child maltreatment.
What is the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act?
BONUS: The medical profession coined this term in 1963 to describe child maltreatment in the 1960s, leading to every state passing legislation on child abuse reporting and intervention.
The lack of community based services following this approach to treating people with mental illness reflects funding and service gaps in treatment, and at worst leads to the reverse of this approach.
What is de-institutionalization?
Paradoxically, this term refers to aid provided in 18th century England in homes and non-institutional settings, rather than almshouses.
What is Outdoor Relief?
Including clients’ perspectives, focusing on rights, collaborating with clients and building people up are all part of this perspective and approach to social policy.
What is a strengths perspective?
Congress expanded these two tax credits in early 2021, providing more money to families and low-income workers.
What are CTC and EITC?
By the 2020 Census, data from which was recently released, no racial or ethnic group under age 18 will have this share of the population.
What is a majority (over 50%)?
This 1999 Supreme Court decision clarified that the ADA requires states to place individuals with disabilities in the community rather than institutions whenever possible.
What is Olmstead v. L.C.?