Government Responses To Inequalities

Question 1

How was the affirmative action program successful?

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Answer 1

• resulted in the doubling/tripling of no. of EM applications to colleges
• unis are now more representative of their communities
• graduates have better lives and earn more

Question 2

What are the limitations of the affirmative action program?

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Answer 2

• outdated and unnecessary nowadays
• causes racial discrimination by favouring EMs over whites for a quota
• racial preference over academic achievement

Question 3

What percent of Asian graduate from college?

Answer 3

5o% or more in some states

Question 4

What is TANF?

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Answer 4

• Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
• primary goal is to get the recipient off welfare and into employment.
• maximum single period you can receive TANF is 24 months, and across a lifetime just 60 months

Question 5

How successful was TANF?

Answer 5

• From its introduction in 1996 until the 2008 recession, the no. of people on TANF reduced every year.
• from 10 million in 1997 to 3.79 million in 2008
• was a spike in recession, but has since started to fall again

Question 6

what are the limitations of TANF?

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Answer 6

• the amount of money made available by the gov has fallen every year
• the amount has stayed the sam but didn’t adjust for inflation
• families in 2015 cannot buy the same amount of goods of TANF as recipients in 97.
• TANF has increased poverty in some families as it forces parents to get poorly paying jobs/ 2 or 3 jobs and end up resulting in more money being spent.

Question 7

What was the gov response to crime and justice inequalities?

Answer 7

• increased law enforcement resources (particularly for gang prevention)
• the Gang. prevention, Intervention and Supression Act 2009

Question 8

What is the Gang prevention, intervention and Suppression act?

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Answer 8

• aims to deter and punish violent gangs
• protects communities/ citizens
• most gang members are EMs, so reducing the no. of gangs/members will, in the long term, reduce the no. of EMs in prison

Question 9

What is The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (Obamacare)?

Answer 9

• aims to extend health insurence coverage to the 15% of Americans who don’t have it
• law requires everyone to have HI
• offers subsidies to make it more affordable
• doesn’t let HI companies deny the already sick/old

Question 10

What Are the limitations of Obamacare?

Answer 10

• companies have to pay for employees health
• isn’t that much cheaper than normal HI
• raises taxes
• focuses more on coverage than confronting the high costs of HI

Question 11

What is the affirmative action program?

Answer 11

-the affirmative action program: set up by Kennedy in the 1960s. Actively encourages underrepresented groups into universities. They have quotas.