chapter 13 domestic policy

Question 1

Promotional

Answer 1

uses positive incentives to encourage behavior

Question 2

Subsidies

Answer 2

government grants of cash or commodities

Question 3

Contracting power

Answer 3

set conditions on companies and the government purchases goods by contract

Question 4

Regulatory

Answer 4

rules backed by penalties to regulate conduct

Question 5

Police regulation

Answer 5

reserved to the states to regulate health/safety/morals of citizens and enforced through civil/criminal penalties

Question 6

Administrative regulation

Answer 6

power that seeks to minimize injuries or inconveniences to the public

Question 7

Regulatory taxation

Answer 7

taxes designed to eliminate an activity such as alcohol or smoking

Question 8

Expropriation

Answer 8

confiscation of property for public use

Question 9

Redistributive

Answer 9

indirect control by altering conditions of conduct or manipulating the environment

Question 10

Monetary policy

Answer 10

government regulates the economy by manipulation of money and credit supply

Question 11

Federal Reserve System

Answer 11

all national banks are a member of this and borrow money from them with a fed funds rate

Question 12

Fiscal policy

Answer 12

use of taxing/monetary/spending powers to manipulate the economy

Question 13

What is the purpose of the progressive income tax system?

Answer 13

raise revenue and reduce disparities of wealth

Question 14

Contributory programs

Answer 14

social programs financed by taxation/”forced savings”

Question 15

Social security

Answer 15

workers contribute a portion of wages for benefits after retirement

Question 16

Medicare

Answer 16

health insurance for the elderly

Question 17

Unemployment insurance

Answer 17

helps replace lost wages

Question 18

Indexing

Answer 18

adjusts social benefits/wages to account for increases in cost of living

Question 19

COLAs

Answer 19

changes made to the levels of benefits of a government program based on the rate of inflation

Question 20

Noncontributory programs

Answer 20

based on demonstrated need

Question 21

Medicaid

Answer 21

health insurance to the poor and the fed gov provides matching funds to the states

Question 22

SSI

Answer 22

provides uniform benefits to the elderly/disabled

Question 23

TANF

Answer 23

benefits vary widely from one state to the next

Question 24

SNAP

Answer 24

food stamps

Question 25

Tax expenditures

Answer 25

taxes/credit rates that subsidize social welfare

Question 26

Personal Responsibilities and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (1996)

Answer 26

created block grants for states which were given more discretion to design their own systems

Question 27

Sputnik (1957)

Answer 27

national defense education act

Question 28

Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965

Answer 28

provided aid to poor and rural areas

Question 29

No Child Left Behind Act

Answer 29

stronger fed gov requirements for student testing

Question 30

What are the 3 controversial worries of NCLB?

Answer 30

unfunded mandate, teaching to the test, and punished underperforming schools

Question 31

What replaced NCLB?

Answer 31

every student succeeds act

Question 32

What did the district of colombia do in race to the top grant?

Answer 32

designed communities for high-performing schools to train teachers at other schools to implement college ready standards

Question 33

What did delaware do in race to the top grant?

Answer 33

met weakly for 90 minutes in professional learning communities

Question 34

What did ohio do in race to the top grant?

Answer 34

hired former principals with strong track records of improving student achievement to coach principals in struggling schools

Question 35

US Public Health service

Answer 35

since 1798 for disease/health control

Question 36

Who are health policies directed at and why?

Answer 36

the poor because of medicaid, healthcare, and health insurance

Question 37

What are the 3 key features of affordable care act?

Answer 37

creation of state-based insurance against insurers denying coverage for pre-existing conditions, individual mandate (requirement that ppl must purchase health insurance), and government subsidies

Question 38

What happened in 2007 with the affordable care act?

Answer 38

made repealed by congress and funds cut

Question 39

Housing policies is...

Answer 39

federal housing policies evolution

Question 40

2007 Housing Bubble

Answer 40

money lent without the ability to repay back

Question 41

Elderly in social policy

Answer 41

social security and medicare

Question 42

What reduces poverty?

Answer 42

social security

Question 43

Middle and upper class in social policy

Answer 43

benefits from social welfare programs

Question 44

Working poor in social policy

Answer 44

ACA (health insurance), EITC (tax relief), SNAP (food assistance)

Question 45

Nonworking poor in social policy

Answer 45

benefits from TANF/SNAP/Medicaid/state general assistance