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What do critics say about social safety nets?
Critics argue that safety net programs encourage dependency and waste taxpayer money.
What do Proponents of free-market economics believe?
They believe that the market forces of supply and demand, working without any government involvement, are the most effective way for markets to operate.
What is beneficiaries within a particular income category?
Medicaid
These individuals actively work to propose or maintain public policies, often going beyond voting or occasional political contributions to influence policy decisions.
Who are policy advocates?
Most policy advocates argued that the best way for the government to interact with the economy was through a hands-off approach formally known as?
laissez-faire".
How can government inaction be a form of policy?
Inaction can create significant outcomes influencing public policy.
What does the distributive policy collect?
They tend to collect payments or resources from many but concentrates direct benefits on relatively few.
What is entitlement program funded through payroll taxes?
Medicare
These are organizations that attempt to influence public policy and government decisions, often by advocating for specific issues or groups.
What are Lobbyist groups?
Contraction phases in which there is no economic growth for two consecutive quarters, was called?
recessions
How was the affordable care act developed?
The result of decades of policy efforts include state-level trials and proposals by both democrats and republicans
What is a final type of policy?
Redistributive Policy
When did the Social Welfare policy start?
During the Great Depression of the 1930s
This branch of Congress was created to assess the spending or revenue impact of proposed legislation and provide guidance on balancing the budget.
What is the Congressional Budget Office?
Keynesianism were overstimulating the economy, creating a situation in which demand for products had outstripped investors’ willingness to increase production. They called for an approach known as?
supply-side economics
What distinguishes public policy bills?
Addresses issues affecting large segments of society while private bills target individual or small group interests.
What does the regulatory policy feature?
It features the opposite arrangement, with concentrated costs and diffuse benefits.
What is the second Social Security benefit?
Disability payout
This stage in the policy process involves government agencies carrying out the enacted policy.
What is policy implementation?
what is discretionary spending?
Discretionary spending is a type of federal spending that is approved by Congress and the President each year through the appropriations process. It is different from mandatory spending, which is not approved by Congress each year and is considered "automatic"
What is public policy?
A stable set of governmental actions addressing issues important to society.
What happened in Nevada in 1932?
Workers constructed the Hoover Dam, a distributive policy project.
What are some worker safety agencies?
FDA or OSHA
This subphase of agenda setting involves identifying and considering various solutions to a problem, such as deciding how to address issues like childhood obesity, before the solution is presented to decision-makers for a vote.
What is alternative specification?
what is the goal of tax policy?
The goal of tax policy, then, is to determine the most effective way of meeting the nation’s revenue obligations without harming other public policy goals.