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Chapter 18: Social Welfare Policymaking

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This activity contains 15 questions.

	Advocates of greater spending for poverty programs have had greater support than those for programs for the elderly.    True  False

	European nations tend to support greater governmental responsibility for poverty and social welfare than the United States.    True  False

	In general, federal taxes are progressive.    True  False

	In the 1960s, America experienced an outpouring of federal programs designed to help the poor and the elderly.    True  False

	Means-tested programs are rarely controversial in America and often overwhelmingly popular.    True  False

	Prior to the twentieth century, governments took little responsibility for feeding and clothing the poor or anyone else.    True  False

	Ronald Reagan chose to target poverty programs as one major way to cut government spending.    True  False

	Studies by David Ellwood and Lawrence Summers have shown that economic growth and recessions have been responsible for much of the movement into and out of poverty during the post-1965 era.    True  False

	Studies of wealth in America display even more inequality than those of income.    True  False

	The 1980s was a period in which the old adage "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" applied.    True  False

	The 1996 Welfare Reform Bill failed to reduce the number of people on welfare.    True  False

	The biggest chunk of federal transfer payments goes to the poor in America.    True  False

	The nature of democratic politics makes it difficult to withdraw government benefits once they are established.    True  False

	The official poverty counts tend to underestimate the seriousness of poverty in America.    True  False

	Without reform, at some point, the Social Security program will become bankrupt.    True  False

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