Quiz 3: Chapter 33

Question 1

Consumer Price Index (p.734)

Answer 1

A measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by households for a fixed market basket of consumer goods and services, including housing; electricity; food; clothing; fuels; doctor, dentist, and drug charges; transportation; and other goods and services that people buy for day-to-day living.

Question 2

Crisis Poverty (p.739)

Answer 2

People whose lives are generally marked by hardship and struggle, transient or episodic, brief stays in shelters or other temporary accommodations.

Question 3

Cultural Attitudes (p.733)

Answer 3

The beliefs and perspectives that a society values.

Question 4

Deinstitutionalization (p.741)

Answer 4

It was done to chronically mentally ill people from public psychiatric hospitals in the 1980s and it increased the number of homeless people. The goal of deinstitutionalization was to replace large state psychiatric hospitals with community-based treatment centers. Unfortunately,
after the hospitals were downsized or closed, federal and state governments failed to allocate the needed funds to provide community-based services

Question 5

Elizabethan Poor Laws (p.732)

Answer 5

Established in the seventeenth century, persons born within the boundaries of the community should be given assistance by that community.Needy travelers from another community would not be helped and were sent back to their original community, where they would be helped by their
own folk.

Question 6

Emergency Shelters (p.744)

Answer 6

Helps homeless find safe, adequate housing, important stopgap during a crisis.

Question 7

Homeless Children (p.743)

Answer 7

Have greater risk-taking behaviors, poorer health status, and decreased access to health care than do teens in the general population.

Question 8

Homelessness (p.738)

Answer 8

An individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.

Question 9

Homeless Persons (p.744)

Answer 9

Have poor health care, it is often fragmented and limited.

Question 10

Interagency Council on the Homeless (p.743)

Answer 10

Coordinate and direct federal homeless activities.

Question 11

Low-Income Housing (p.744)

Answer 11

Accessible through vouchers or after a homeless person has stabilized, and had access to employment income or SSI.

Question 12

Media Discourses (p.733)

Answer 12

Are a way to communicate thoughts and attitudes through literature, film, art, television, newspapers, and the Internet.

Question 13

Near Poor (p.734)

Answer 13

Persons whose income is above the federal poverty guidelines but still inadequate.

Question 14

Neighborhood Poverty (p.734)

Answer 14

Social aspects of poverty, poverty refers to geographically defined areas of high poverty, characterized by run-down housing, high unemployment
rates, and poorer health outcomes.

Question 15

Persistent Poverty (p.734)

Answer 15

Social aspects of poverty,
refers to individuals and families who remain poor for
long periods and whose poverty is multigenerational.

Question 16

Personal Beliefs (p.732)

Answer 16

Ideas about the world that a person believes to be true; these beliefs are rooted in societal values.

Question 17

Poverty (p.734)

Answer 17

Having insufficient financial resources to meet basic living expenses.

Question 18

Poverty Threshold Guidelines (p.734)

Answer 18

Issued by the U.S. Bureau of the Census and are used primarily for statistical purposes.

Question 19

Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 (p.743)

Answer 19

Provided funding for outpatient health services; however, the monies for these services were not large, and many needs go unmet; grants homeless children the same access to education as permanently housed children.

Question 20

Supportive Housing (p.744)

Answer 20

Reserved for vulnerable homeless population groups, such as persons with physical and mental disabilities, women and children who are victims of abuse, and those recovering from alcohol and drug users.

Question 21

Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (p.734)

Answer 21

Government assistance program.

Question 22

Women, Infants, and Children Program (p.734)

Answer 22

Government assistance program.