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| Social Welfare Policy Analysis |
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| Investigation and inquiry into the causes and consequences of public policy. |
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| The general term for decisions, laws, and regulations put forth by government/governing bodies. |
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| Requires knowledge about values in all segments of society and about all possible alternatives, their consequences and their cost and benefits. |
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| states that public policy is developed through small changes to existing policies. |
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| timing of a public decision. |
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| the magnitude theory posits that the more dramatic the event, the more significant the policy response. |
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| of public policy is an evolutionary process, and policy changes when it is implemented. |
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Long term protectionn, prevenative, workers payin earlier while they can, and collect later when they are in need
Collectively funded program for workers and their dependents that provides economic resources at the conclusion of employment, in this country, known as Social Security. |
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| Old-Age Survivors, and Disablity Insurance Program (OASDI) aka Social Security |
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| Social Insurance and Public Insurance |
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| short term cash assistance, residual, covers people when they fall below a certain level of economic need, is regarded as tempoary |
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| Set of legislative reforms put forth by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that set a new legislative tone for the country. |
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| added in 1956, provides cash benefits for disabled workers. |
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| is provided through federal-state partnerships that give benefits to regularly employed membersof the labor force who become involuntarily employed |
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| Federal Unemployment Trust Fund |
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| All taxes collected from employers are deposited into. each state has a separate account from which to pay benefits. State regulated according to past wages within limits set by each states. |
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| Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) |
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| The law that mandates they payment for employees. Workers pay into the OASDI program through payroll taxes or self-employment taxes. |
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| one that is proportionately greater for people with low incomes than for people with higher incomes. ex food tax |
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| Social Security Trust Fund |
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| the federal government holds the money in this special account. Money can only be used for the OASDI program in the form of monthly benefits, vocational rehabilitation services for disabled beneficiaries, administrative costs, etc. |
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| the program redistributes income from those who have higher incomes to those who have less. ex. clinton |
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| Senior Citizen's Freedom to Work Act |
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| this legislation removed the barriers so that seniors could work without having their benefits reduced. |
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| Absolute measure of poverty |
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| uses a fixed predetermined amount below which people ate defined as poor. |
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| Relative measure of Poverty |
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| uses societal standards to assess the minimum needed for a reasonable living situation, and anything less than that standard is considered poor. |
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| poverty thresehold/poverty line |
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| dollar amount set for the federal poverty measure. |
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| Department of Health and Human Services issues this each year and are a simplification of the poverty thresholds for use for administrative purposes-for instance determining financial eligibility for certain federal programs. |
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| How many people are poor? |
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| Using absolute measure ther are 37 million people or 13% of the pop. in poverty |
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| They are not one group. They are numerous different people including the working poor, those who are poor in spite of employment due to very low wages;homeless people, those who lack a permanent dwelling and are extremely poor; and disproportionately women and children, called the feminization and juvenilizatio of poverty. |
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| those that live in poverty despite being employed. |
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| women are more likely than men to be among those who are poor |
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| those that live in poverty despite being employed. |
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| Juvenilization of Poverty |
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| children are the most likely group to be in poverty |
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| single rooms often former hotels that lack kitchen facilities, affordable housing but not ideal. |
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| time limited, no-gurantee program, limit of 5 years. Tempoary cash assistance and work opportunities for participants |
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| Supplemental Security Income (SSI) |
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| program provides cash assistance to any person who is age 65 or older, blind, or has a disablility and whose income falls below the poverty line. |
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| Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) |
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| is a federal program designed to lift families with full time year round workers above poverty levels. |
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| Supplemental Food Program for Women and Children (WIC) |
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| is a federal program designed to provide nutrition and health assistance to pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and children up to the age of 5 years. |
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