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Social Safety Nets
Social Safety Nets Continued
Social Insurance
Means tested programs
100
government programs that protect the minimum standard of living of families and individuals against loss of income.
What is Safety Nets
100
Government programs that provide services or income support in proportion to the amount of mandatory contributions made by individuals to a government trust fund
What is Social Insurance
100
Social insurance program that provides income support for the elderly, those with disabilities, and family survivors of working americans
What is social security
100
what do means tested programs do?
What is designed to serve the poor with monies from gernl revenues while accounting for a much smaller portion of the federal budget than social insurance programs
200
A government with a broad set of safety net programs
What is welfare state
200
What are entitlement programs and give an example.
What is government benefits that are distributed automatically to citizens who qualify on the basis of a set of guidelines set by law. ex: medicare
200
federal health insurance program for the elderly and the disabled
What is medicare
200
Program administered by the staes that pays for health care services for the poor; jointly funded by the federal government
What is poverty line
300
Who do Social Safety Nets benefit most?
What is non poor people
300
Which governments pay for Social Safety nets? Give examples if possible
What is some safety net programs are administered directly from Washington ex: social security Others are jointly administered by federal and state governments ex Medicaid
300
Program funded by taxes on employers to provide short-term income support to laid off workings
What is unemployment insurance
300
Program funded by the Department of Agriculture. Helps poor americans falling below a certain income line buy food for themselves and their families.
What is Food Stamps.
400
Explain at least one political factor(s) of Safety Nets
What is people wanted governments help in solving certain problems, size and power of the industrial working class, interest groups,
400
Factors that influence the shape of the U.S Welfare System
Constitutional rules racial divisions political culture business power weak labor unions
400
this period of economic crisis in the U.S lasted from the stock market crash of 1929 and led to the creation of ______
What is the Great Depression and Social Security
400
How does Temporary Assistance to Needy Families help families and what does it require of them?
-gives cash assistance to families and money for child care, education, training, and other services to help recipients enter paid employment. Also provides health care. -requires head of family to work within two years of receiving benefits and is limited to a total of five years of benefits.
500
Explain at least one structural factor(s) as two why we have social safety nets
What is economy changes from periods of growth and repression, longer life spans, rich industrial societies are mobile places
500
How does the united states social safety nets differ from other countries?
-Our system is much less costly -Covers fewer people than other systems -favors elderly -less redistributive -requires less of private employers -does not include universal health coverage
500
What is State Child Health Insurance Program
What is Program that pays for health care services for children in households with income up to 200 % of the poverty line who are not covered by medicaid.