Overview
Chapter 11
Reversing the race to the bottom: poverty and policy
TEST ITEMS
Part I. Multiple Choice Questions
- A major component of the 1996 Welfare Reform act was to encourage
- welfare to work rules *
- full employment policies
- universal health coverage
- higher minimum wage guidelines
- As part of the New Deal programs, the Roosevelt administration initiated
- school-to-work programs
- public work projects such as the WPA and CCC *
- a national network of enterprise zones
- the new international division of labor
- Lyndon Johnson responded to disturbing studies of poverty, such as Michael Harrington’s The Other America, with a call
- to end welfare as we know it
- to institute social security
- to defend freedom in Vietnam
- for a war on poverty *
- Poverty in the US decreased the most dramatically during
- the 1930s
- the 1960s *
- the 1970s
- the 1980s
- David Ellwood and others have argued that working poor families should be supported by universal health care and expanded
- enterprise zones
- school-to-work policies
- earned income tax credits *
- restrictive covenants
- Since the 1970s the real dollar value of the minimum wage has
- increased
- declined *
- been determined by the states themselves
- remained constant
- The highest poverty rates in the US are experienced by
- Hispanics
- Native Americans *
- Whites
- Asian Americans
- Compared to other nations, the United States
- has the longest life expectancy
- has the lowest infant mortality rate
- has the healthiest population
- spends the most on healthcare *
- Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was replaced in 1996 by a new program called
- Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) *
- the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
- the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- An important recent shift in the homeless population is that more of the homeless are now
- alcoholic
- women with children *
- single men
- living in flophouses
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