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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
100
Earnings from work or investment
What is Income
100
A tax in which the average tax rate is the same at all income levels
What is Proportional tax
100
policies that provide benefits to individuals, either through entitlements or means testing
What is Social welfare policies
100
A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
What is Democracy
200
Government benefits that certain qualified individuals are entitled to by law, regardless of need.
What is Entitlement programs
200
government programs available only to individuals below a poverty line
What is Means-tested programs
200
A tax for which the percentage of income paid in taxes decreases as income increases
What is Regressive tax
200
A federal welfare program that provides money to poor families.
What is Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
200
(government) the system or form by which a community or another political unit is governed
What is Government
300
The increasing concentration of poverty among women, especially unmarried women and their children
What is Feminization of poverty
300
In 1996, this act transformed the welfare system in the U.S. It ended the federal guarantee of assistance to families with dependent children and allocated greater flexibility to the states in administering welfare.
What is Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
300
the Reagan-era law which provided amnesty to many immigrants and toughened border controls
What is Simpson–Mazzoli Act
300
Benefits given by the government directly to individuals. Transfer payments may be either cash transfers, such as Social Security payments and retirement payments to former government employees, or in-kind transfers, such as food stamps and low-interest loans for college education.
What is Transfer payments
300
Method of maintaining, managing, and gaining control of government (who gets what, when, and how)
What is Politics
400
Migration to a new location
What is Immigration
400
A method used to count the number of poor people, it considers what a family must spend for an "austere" standard of living.
What is Poverty Line
400
The "bank account" into which Social Security contributions are "deposited" and used to pay out eligible recipients.
What is Social Security Act of 1935
400
affluence
What is Wealth
400
Goods, such as clean air and clean water, that everyone must share.
What is Public Goods
500
how the nation's total income is distributed among its population
What is Income distribution
500
A tax for which the percentage of income paid in taxes increases as income increases
What is Progressive tax
500
The "bank account" into which Social Security contributions are "deposited" and used to pay out eligible recipients.
What is Social Security Trust Fund
500
A choice that government makes in response to a political issue. A policy is a course of action taken with regard to some problem.
What is Public Policy