Law and Politics

The nation's fragmented social welfare policy is a reflection of shifting conservative and liberal ...

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Behavioral dependency means that poor people become dependent on government for their economic ...

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In 1996, President Clinton made good on his promise to end welfare as we know it by signing a law ...

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Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was included in the Social Security Act of 1935 . Its ...

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Congress abandoned AFDC in 1996 with passage of a new welfare reform act called the Personal ...

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Supplemental Security Income (SSI) was created in 1974 by combining three existing programs: Old Age ...

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Medicaid is a health care system for America's seniors that spent more than 390 billion in 2011, ...

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Medicare is a health care program jointly funded by the national and state governments for the poor. ...

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State and local governents are allowing TANF and other programs to pay a part of day care expenses ...

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States and localities are important innovators in social welfare policy and the governments closest ...

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Children are not as vulnerable to being poor because of the divorce rate dropping from 90 percent to ...

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Public assistance today has two goals: to promote the wellbeing of families and end welfare ...

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Teenagers are highly likely to produce at-risk children and cost taxpayers a great deal of money. ...

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Many states have work-first strategies to welfare reform that stress immediate job searches. a. ...

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Before the 1996 Welfare Reform Act and TANF, checks were handed over to AFDC recipients only in ...

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States now take three approaches to welfare reform: cut welfare funding altogether, work-first ...

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Privatizing state welfare programs has turned out to be exactly the divine intervention that its ...

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The nation's total annual health care bill exceeds 3 trillionor 18 percent of the economyby far the ...

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Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, is the 2010 congressional act that requires ...

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States that spend a high amount per capita on health care also generally rank high on state health ...

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Massachusetts tried a health care system that gave every citizen the right to free care. It was ...

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Without government regulation or incentives, most firms that produce pollutants as a byproduct of ...

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Too much regulation of business and industry to protect the environment can a. attract new and ...

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Government's role in environmental policy is generally seen to be a. constantly balancing the ...

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If Nebraska was to engage in relaxing regulations, lowering taxes, or reducing benefits to gain an ...

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