Exam 2

Question 1

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

Answer 1

Educational institutions must demostrate an improved outcome for students with disabilities

Question 2

Medicaid

Answer 2

Health insurance coverage for those who are in poverty, elderly, pregnant women, and disabled

Question 3

The personal Responsibility and Work opportunity Act

Answer 3

Limited entitlement to public assistance for children and families given by the social security act

Question 4

Poverty Threshold

Answer 4

The threshold in which poverty is measured and determined.

Question 5

Define wealth in the United States

Answer 5

Net worth which is, Assets minus debts

Question 6

Define Severe Poverty

Answer 6

Annual income below 50% of the poverty threshold

Question 7

Define Discouraged Workers

Answer 7

Subgroup of marginally attached workers who want a job but have no hope of finding one.

Question 8

Define Social Justice

Answer 8

An ideal condition in which all members of a society have the same basic rights, opportunities, obligations, protections, and social benefits.

Question 9

The McKinney Vento Act

Answer 9

Mandates continuous service to transient and homeless students.

Question 10

Define Marginally Attached Workers

Answer 10

Those without jobs but who are interested in working

Question 11

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

Answer 11

Sets criteria and limitations for needy families to achieve self-sufficiency.

Question 12

Discuss causes for unequal distribution of income and wealth in the U.S.

Answer 12

Poverty, race-based barriers to opportunity, discrimination by race, gender, age, and other factors.

Question 13

Describe a holistic approach to reducing and eliminating poverty

Answer 13

Comprehensive child support for all single custodial parents, job training, & universal health care

Question 14

Define Human Rights

Answer 14

The universal rights to a standard of living that is adequate to the well-being and health of individuals and families.

Question 15

Universal declaration of human rights 1984

Answer 15

A foundation document upon which protections for human rights could be built

Question 16

Why should human rights be a priority for social workers in the 21st century?

Answer 16

Human rights should be a priority for social workers in the 21st century because they advocate for people’s rights to have paid employment, adequate food, education, shelter, health care. Also the right to freedom from violence and freedom to pursue their dreams. The NASW is the most influential professional social work body in the world. Effectiveness on the 21st century will depend on the extension of its social justice values within the context of global human rights.

Question 17

The Patient protection and affordable care act(2010)

Answer 17

The law provides affordable health care, removes coverage limits, and if you have parents on the same health care plan you may stay on there till age 26.

Question 18

Identify health disparities

Answer 18

Racial and ethnic groups are less likely to recieve preventative health care and more likely to suffer from serious illnesses. Ex. Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease

Question 19

Benefits of the Affordable care act

Answer 19

Expands access to health insurance, broadens medicaid eligibility, shifts from acute care to comprehensive care across the continuum, requires access from parental insurance coverage for adult children under age 26

Question 20

Drawbacks of the Affordable Care Act

Answer 20

ACA fails to extend coverage to undocumented residents, New enrolles in Medicaid will worsen the nationwide health care providers shortage, continued health care disenfranchisement of millions of U.S residents

Question 21

U.S Presidents’ roles in shaping public and social policy (Provide examples)

Answer 21

U.S Presidents have a unique ability to influence policy. Before they are elected they present the nation with their platform, a set of policies they do or do not support as well as any new policies they hope to implement. Once they are elected, presidents have the ability to influence government officials by supporting or not supporting any proposed policies. The president can ratify or veto bills that reach his desk. With an executive order the president can circumvent the legislative process and create new policies. 
# examples of policies approved by presidents: FDR's New Deal, The Affordable Care Act, and the national drug control strategy