America Tackling Inquilitues Flashcards
What are the 3 inequities?
Healthcare
Schooling
Economic
What has been done to tackle health
Affordable healthcare act
Obbamcare 2010
What two things in Obama care are we looking at
Compulsory
Expanding
What makes compulsory healthcare effective
No healthcare gone from 16% to 10 %
Ethinics saw greatest
But what has trump done to compulsory medical care
Removed it
Back up to 12 %
What was good about the expansion of medicalaid
10.8 million more got it
Meaning they now had health care and before this were 2X more lucky to die when going to hospital
But what makes the expansion of Medicaid less effective
Not all states
Some republican don’t do it texis
5 million don’t get
What was introduced to tackle education inequality
Opertunity tax on 2009
Explain opertunity tax
$10,000 for 4 years of uni or collage for family’s earning less than $180,000
Why is opertunity tax good?
It’s helped over 11.5 million family’s
AA degree adanment from 13% to 20%
Why is opertunity tax bad
Whites still get better education
Education gap between AA and Whites worse from 13% to 20%
What two things were done to tackle economic
Min wage
TANF
Why is min wage good
There were 2.6 million not getting it
Mostly ethnic minority’s
Hispanics working as fruit pickers
Why is min wage bad
54% of Fast good workers complaining for $15
Fight for 15
Inequality has not been takeover as Hispanics make 17% of pop but 28% pop pop
Whites only 9% poor pop but majority of normal pop
Explain why TANF is good
Extremely child poverty has dropped from 7 million in 2010 to 6.5 million
