California 2026 governor race Flashcards

Question

What is the role that values and self-interest play in social problem definition?

Answer 1

-MANIFEST: Publicity stated goals -LATENT: NOT PUBLICIZED, nor consider SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE

Answer 2

government programs for which all people who meet the eligibility requirements legally qualify.

Answer 3

rules allow people to receive benefits ONLY if the made specific prior contributions -low income and assets below certain level -

Answer 4

-The value of a healthy child or older adults quality should not be reduced to a dollars-& cents calculation. -Fiscal impact statement: estimate prepared by a government agency that PREDICTS how legislation would affect public finances

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-After WWI prosperity in Americans, but not for all -stock market crash -Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge & Herbet Hoover president unwilling to engage in large-scale social reform -CCC Civilian Conservations Corps; WPA Workers Progress Administration & CWA Civil Works Administration -Roosvel created new job and programs to help people in need

Answer 6

The 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson established the “separate but equal” doctrine:

Answer 7

-Progressive Taxes: Taxes that require people with HIGHER incomes to pay a HIGHER percentage of their income, compared to lower-income families -Regressive Taxes: taxes that require people with LOWER income to pay HIGHER proportions of their income, compared to higher-income taxpayers.

Answer 8

-Define needs or social problems and strengths in partnership with clients. When constructing problems, include the perspectives of the target group. -Document needs, strengths, and goals in partnership with clients. Measure the extent of need, dimensions of structural barriers, and clients’ strengths and preferred goals. -Engage in claims-making to carve out the space for clients to self-determine a path to their identified goals. Strengths-based policy practice uses claims to advance a vision of justice. -Negotiate policy goals in partnership with clients. Seek out information on clients’ goals, carefully consider those goals as important priorities, and work with policymakers to include client perspectives when developing policy goals. -Legitimize policy goals with the public. Frame policy goals to align with key social values and work to find common ground with important constituencies. -In partnership with clients, formulate policy alternatives that meet established goals. Identify ways clients currently overcome barriers. These are important strengths and should be heralded as such. Identify programs that help clients overcome barriers; these are best practices. Strengths-based social workers facilitate client empowerment when they position clients as experts on their own needs and relevant policy actors capable of advancing promising solutions. -Develop, enact, and implement the policy or program in partnership with clients. Client involvement does not stop at the point of policy formulation. Instead, clients’ needs, goals, and perspectives should inform design and implementation at all stages. -Evaluate outcomes in partnership with clients. To improve policy, evaluation and ongoing assessment should emphasize client outcomes and feedback.

Answer 9

-The popular definition of “social welfare” is often limited to assistance for people categorized as “needy. - This narrow framing contributes to people’s resistance to invest in public social welfare programs they do not perceive as benefiting “people like them,” while minimizing the substantial role policy plays in facilitating the well-being of those already advantaged. For example, when people identify social welfare expenditures, they are more likely to think of subsidized housing than mortgage interest deductions, even though both types of spending are directed at meeting people’s housing needs

Answer 10

work done by concerned individuals to make the case to policymakers, key actors, & the public at large that resources should be allocated to meet a recognized need.

Answer 11

- DEFINITION: the environmental habitat of people, including the resources they utilize and the people with which they associate/ A housing development, school, or community center, and the people and resources associated with each, can all be social niches. -TYPES: *Entrapping niches: environments with barriers that prevent people from filling their needs. *Enabling niches: environments that provide resources to help people meet their needs. *Transporting niches: environments where people can get the help they need to move out of entrapping niches.

Answer 12

-OLDER ADULTS, Workplace discrimination -The goal was to prohibit discrimination on the basis age.

Answer 13

-suspended requirements that voters pass literacy tests and assigned federal registrars to enroll voters.

Answer 14

-Created to help returning soldiers build ASSEST & ACCESS OPORTUNITIES. -POSITIVE: It help to created opportunities for soldiers to restore their life, loans, college attendance, etc. -NEGATIVE: However, continuing SEGREGATION in both housing and education limited the utility of the GI Bill for BLACK VETERANS.

Answer 15

-Medicaid: a national government health insurance program for people 65 or older who are eligible for SS & certain categories of younger people disabilities -Medical: a health care program for certain categories of people with low income, jointly funded by the FEDERAL STATE governments

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-AMERICAN INDEPENDENT PARTY -DEMOCRATIC PARTY -GREEN PARTY -LIBERTARIAN -PEACE & FREEDOM -REPUBLICAN

Answer 17

-Vertical equity: redistribution of resources to people who possess fewer resources or have more severe needs, to help equalize resulting conditions. -Horizontal equity: equal distribution of resources to people irrespective of factors such as demographics, location, and socioeconomic status.

Answer 18

-TAX RAISE FUNDS TO HELP POOR -in 1601 the government passed the Act for the Relief of the Poor, more commonly called the Poor Law of 1601. -This law created a uniform system for addressing poverty and unemployment and authorized a tax to raise funds for relief. Justices of the peace in every parish were empowered to appoint officials, known as “overseers of the poor,” to supervise relief programs.

Answer 19

that Title II of the ADA requires that states, whenever possible, provide services for individuals with disabilities in community settings rather than in institutions. -Lois Curtis, one of the original plaintiffs whose battle for community services rather than institutionalization catalyzed the Olmstead ruling, met President Obama in 2009 on the anniversary of the decision.

Answer 20

-Houses that provide services to people living in poverty. -Began in England in 1884 with the founding Toynbee Hall in East London, where young professionals worked as volunteers to contribute to neighborhood development. - The Settlement House movement was both influenced by and had a profound impact upon the Progressive Era, a time of widespread social action and political reform, which began in the late 1800s (Davis, 1984). -Settlement house workers fought for child labor laws, occupational health and safety, safe housing, fair wages, and decent sanitation.

California 2026 governor race Flashcards

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