Business and Labor Policy
The term for import taxes.
What are tarriffs?
Our national pension plan that provides a lifetime of retirement income to people who have paid into the system.
What is Social Security?
Government officials who represent the nation in other countries.
What are ambassadors?
Special documents issued by the US government giving people permission to enter and to stay for a specific period of time.
What are visas?
EPA (The department that passes legislation to clean up air and water)
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
The term for forms of aid to business.
What are subsidies?
The type of legislation most agricultural policy is legislated through.
What are farm bills?
Free trade agreements between the US and one other government
What are bilateral agreements?
Documents that show people have permission to live and work in the US.
What are green cards?
USDA (Federal organization that administers most farm policy)
What is the US Department of Agriculture?
A single producer that controls so much of a product, service, or industry that little or no competition exists.
What is a monopoly?
The voluntary federal health insurance program for seniors and the poor.
What is Medicare?
Free trade agreements between the US and several governments.
What are multilateral agreements?
A program for people who are unable to return to their home country who are already in the US and their immediate relatives.
What is an asylum program?
FHA (guarantees banks and other private lenders against losses on loans for purchasing homes)
What is the Federal Housing Administration?
Several corporations who have combined their stock and operate as one giant enterprise.
What is a trust?
The program designed to help pay hospital, doctor, and other medical bills for persons with low incomes.
What is Medicaid?
Measures such as withholding loans, arms, or economic aid to force a foreign government to cease certain activities.
What are sanctions?
A program for people who are unable to return to their home country who are outside the US and their immediate relatives.
What is a refugee program?
CHIP (provides coverage to about 8 million children whose families earn too much to receive Medicaid)
What is the Children's Health Insurance Program?
The practice of negotiating labor contracts.
What is collective bargaining?
The program to keep crop prices from falling too low.
What are price supports?
Treaties that protect areas the US has committed itself to defending.
What are regional security pacts?
One of the main paths to citizenship is being born in the US. This is the other.
What is naturalization?
TANF (The current welfare program that cut back on the food stamp program and limited the amount of food stamps available for people without children)
What is Temporary Assistance for Needy Families?