ch 10 vocab p1
The given name to the population of people under 35.
What is millennials?
A list of potential policy ideas, bills, or plans to help improve society.
What is a Agenda?
A phone poll with an ulterior motive.
What Is push polling?
A federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age or older.
What is Medicare?
They lived during an era of economic prosperity after ww11 and through the turbulent 60s.
What are Baby boomers?
The party that opposes government intervention, has a high regard for civil liberties, opposes censorship, and wants lower taxes, conservative for economics and liberal on social issues.
What is Libertarian?
The rate the federal reserve charges for loans to commercial banks.
What is discount rate?
They are used to gather general information about peoples views/ concerns.
What are benchmark polls?
Managing the economy by altering the supply of money and interest rates.
What is monetary policy?
Born before 1945, born during the great depression or as late as the aftermath of ww11.
What is the silent genreation?
The process of an ever expanding and increasingly interactive world economy.
What is globalization?
The general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.
What is inflation?
They are conducted outside a polling place on election day to predict the outcome of the election.
What are Entrance/Exit polls?
1913, explicitly permitted congress to levy an income tax.
Created a free trade area in the US, Canada, and Mexico.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?
The variety of social, physical, and psychological changes as people age.
What is Life cycle effects?
The federal program that provides medical benefits for low income persons.
What is Medicaid?
They measure the accuracy of a public opinion poll.
What is Margin of Error?
People with higher incomes pay larger fractions of their income than those with lower incomes.
What is Progressive tax system?
The large group in question?
What is the universe?
They sharply divide the public, topics such as social security, employment, abortion, invasion of Iraq
What are wedge issues?
A tax system in which all people pay the same percentage of their income.
What is flat tax?
The small group to represent the large.
What is Representative sample?
The value of a nations exports minus the value of its imports(net exports)
What is Trade Balance?
The principle of a government that establishes laws that apply equally to all, prevents the rule and whims of leaders who see themselves above the law.
What is rule of law?