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EXAM 1 Flashcards

1
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Progressive Era

[year and president]

A

1890-1930

Teddy Roosevelt

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Progressive Era

[theme]

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Poverty as environmental

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Progressive Era

[policies]

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  • Workers Comp
  • Employer Liability
  • Pensions for widows
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The New Deal

[year and president]

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1930-1960

Franklin Roosevelt

*Great Depression

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The New Deal

[theme]

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Government assistance required

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The New Deal

[policies]

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  • Social Security
  • Works Progress Admin. (construction jobs)
  • Civilian Concervation Corps (conservation jobs)
  • Bank reform
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The War on Poverty

[year and president]

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1960-1980

Lyndon B Johnson

* Civil rights movement, women’s right movement

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The War on Poverty

[theme]

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Need to intervene in “The Other America”

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The War on Poverty

[policies]

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  • Economic opportunity act
  • head start
  • job corps
  • food stamps
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The Ownership Society

[years and presidentS]

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1980-2008

Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, G.W. Bush

* Cultural theory of poverty begins here

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The Ownership Society

[theme]

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expand personal responsibility, shrink federal programs

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The Ownership Society

[policies]

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  • Reagan Cuts (80s) - cut funding to govt programs and change economic policies. hurt poor men
  • Welfare reform (90s) - reduce number of people dependent on govt. assistance. hurt poor women
  • homeland security - gained additional funding from budget cuts of govt programs
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The Next New Deal

[year and president]

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2009-2016

Barack Obama

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The Next New Deal

[theme]

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Government assistance required, increase support for families and communities

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The Next New Deal

[policies]

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  • Healthcare and education
  • infrastructure and job creation
    • Wall Street Bailout - added regulations but no criminal convictions
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MAGA

[year and president]

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2017 - present

Donald Trump

17
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MAGA

[theme]

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let capitalizm work for the American people, Law and Order

18
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MAGA

[policies]

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  • Repeal ACA (didn’ repeal but greatly reduced effectiveness)
  • Wall Street consistency - reduce regulations
  • Travel Ban + Immigration reform
  • Race relations
19
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Residual Approach to Social Welfare

(define)

A
  • temporary, stigmatized safety net
  • targeted (not everyone qualifies)
20
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Residual Approach to Social Welfare

(examples)

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  • Food stamps
  • earned income tax credit
  • child support enforcement
  • unemployment insurance
21
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Institutional Approach to Social Welfare

(define)

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  • Social welfare as a right of citizenship
  • universal services
22
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Institutional Approach to Social Welfare

(examples)

A
  • public education
  • family medical leave act
  • affordable care act
  • social security
23
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What percentage of individuals in the US lived below the poverty threshold in 2012?

A

15%

24
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poverty rate by age

A

<6 yo = 24.8%

<18 yo = 19.9%

18-64 yo = 13.6%

65+ = 9.5%

younger people are more likely to experience poverty

25
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poverty rate by gender

A

women are twice as likely to experience poverty

26
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poverty rate by education

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  • people with some college credit have twice the rate of poverty as those who have graduated college
  • people who did not graduate high school have twice the rate of poverty as those who did graduate
    • 1/3 of people who did not graduate high school live in poverty
27
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poverty rate by region

A

poverty is concentrated in the south, southwest, and appalachia

28
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rates of poverty by race

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blacks and latinos have twice the rate of poverty as whites

white = 10.2%

black = 24.7%

latino = 20.7%

29
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poverty line for family of four in 2019

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$25,750

30
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when did the inequality gap begin to grow

A

1979 - under Reagan admin.

31
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what percentage of poor families have at least one member who is employed?

A

68% or more

32
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name the different “economic boats” (types of jobs) according to Robert Reich

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  1. Routine producers: hard labor jobs (sinking rapidly)
  2. In person servers: cashiers, customer service (sinking slowly)
  3. Symbolic analysts: highly skilled jobs (rising steadily)
33
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what is the immigrant paradox?

A

health of immigrants and their children dereases over generations

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