Chapter 19 AP Gov Social Welfare

An example of a welfare policy in which most or all people benefit is...

• AFDC

• Social Secuirty

• SNAP (food stamps)

• Medicaid

• SNAP + Medicaid

AN example of a welfare policy that helps only a small number of people is...

• AFDC

• Social Security

• SNAP (food stamps)

• Medicaid

• AFDC, SNAP (food stamps), and Medicaid

Means test are associated with the following types of welfare programs:

• majoritarian based

• minoritarian based

• client based

• concurrency based

• neo-institutional politics

Means test place specific focus on...

• employment

• education

• income level

• age

• employment and education

Welfare policies in which nearly everyone benefits and nearly everyone pays are characterized by...

• neo-institutional politics

• minoriarian politics

• client politics

• concurrency politics

• majoritarian politics

Welfare policies in which a relatively few number of people benefit but almost everyone pays are...

• majoritarian politics

• minoritarian politics

• client politics

• concurrency politics

• neo- institutional politics

AFDC was created in the

• 1990s

• 1970s

• 1960s

• 1950s

• 1930s

An example of client-based welfare policies that recently lost political legitimacy is...

• SS

• Medicare

• AFDC

• Medicaid

• All of the answers

Which of the following makes US welfare policy different from that of most European democracies?

• Americans have tended to insist that welfare benefits be particularized and take the form of cash payments.

• Americans have been quicker than other countries to adopt many components of the welfare state.

• Americans have insisted that the federal government play a large role in running welfare programs.

• Americans have tended to favor aid in the form of money over aid in the form of services.

• Americans have generally taken a more restrictive view of who is entitles to receive government assistance.

In America, we have insisted the _________ play(s) a large role in running welfare programs.

• the states

• the private sector

• the US Senate

• the federal judiciary

• county boards