FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER 18 AP GOV

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER 18 AP GOV

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Question 1: Income

Answer:

The amount of funds collected between any two points in time.

Question 2: Personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act

Answer:

The official name of the welfare reform law of 1996.

Question 3: Earned income tax credit

Answer:

A negative income tax that provides income to very poor individuals.

Question 4: Social security act of 1935

Answer:

Created both the Social Security program and a national assistance program for poor children, usually called AFDC.

Question 5: Social Security trust fund

Answer:

Bank account into which social security contributions are deposited and used to pay out eligible recipients.

Question 6: Social Welfare policies

Answer:

Policies that provide benefits to people, through both entitlements and means testing.

Question 7: regressive tax

Answer:

Tax rates are greater for poor people.

Question 8: Entitlement programs

Answer:

Government benefits that certain qualified individuals are entitled to by law, regardless of need.

Question 9: Transfer payments

Answer:

Benefits given by the government directly to individuals. Transfers can be cash transfers such as social security.Question 10: Personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act:

Answer:

Each state would receive a fixed amount of money to run its own welfare program, people on welfare would have to find work within two years or lose all their benefits, and a lifetime maximum of years on welfare was set.

Question 11: Temporary assistance for needy families

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Once called aid to families with dependent children. The new name for public assistance to needy families.

Question 12: income distribution

Answer:

The shares of the national income earned by various groups.

Question 13: Progressive tax

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A tax where the government takes a larger percent of the income from the rich rather than the poor.

Question 14: Means tested programs

Answer:

Government program available only to individuals below poverty line.

Question 15: Poverty Line

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Method used to count poor people, it considers what a family must need to maintain a standard of living.

Question 16: Wealth

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The value of assets owned.

Question 17: Proportional tax

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A tax where the government taxes the same flat percent regarding your income.

Question 18: Feminization of poverty

Answer:

Increasing concentration of poverty among women, especially unmarried women and their children.