Chapter 15: Domestic Policy

A category of public policy thatis comprised of policy decisions on matters affecting individuals within a political system

Governmental program, such as social insurance and povefy programe , directed specifically toward promoting the wellbeing of individuals and families

Programs such as social security and medicaid, whereby eligible individuals receive benefits according to law

A set of ideas applying Charles Darwin’s theory of biological evolution to society and holding that social relationships occur within a struggle for survival in which only the fittest survive

An urban reform movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that called for direct primaries, restrictions on corporations, and improved public services thatbwS influenced in the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson

The first two terms of president franklin D Roosevelt, whose revolutionary policy initiatives establised a pervasive and active role for the national government

President Lyndon Johnsons term for an egalitarian society that aggressive governmental action to help the poor and disadvantaged would attempt to create in the 1960s

Welfare programs that provide cash or services to the aged, the disabled, and the unemployed regardless of income level

Landmark legislation enacted in 1935 that firmly established for the first time a social welfare role the national government by providing old age insurance, unemployment compensation, and grants to the cash assistance to dependent children and to the blind, disabled, and aged

A model of decision making that holds that new policies differ only marginally from existing policies

A public health insurance program in which government pays the providers of health care for medical services given to patients who are aged or disabled

A social insurance policy that grants temporary financial assistance to the unemployed

Type of social welfare programs in which povernmnt provides cash or in-kind benefits to individuals who qualify by having little or no income

A definition of poverty that holds that individuals with less, regardless of their absikuteg income level , will feel poor or deprived relative to those who have more

Income level differentiated by family size and annually adjusted for inflation, below which government defines individuals as being poor

Individuals who, despite being employed or seeking employment, are still defined as poor because their low earnings are not enough to put them above the poverty threshold

A proportion of the poor comprised of individuals isolated from the rest of society and from whom poverty is a continuing way of life

Policy strategies designed to reqch the fundamental causes of povrrty and to enable individuals to get out of poverty and lead productive, self-sufficient lives

Policy strategies designed to make poverty more bearable for individuals rather than designed to attack poverty by reaching its fundamental causes

Social welfare programs, administered by the states and jointly funded by state and national revenues, that provides cash assistance, in participating state, to needy children and on adult relative or unemployed parent

Social welfare program administered by the social security administration whereby the national government gaurentees as certain level of incoke for the needy, ages , blind,and disabled

A 1996 law that findamentally altered the AFDC welfare program by renaming it TANF and placing work and training in requirements, as well as time limits, on its use

A means-tested medical care programs providing in-kind medical benfits for the poor

Noncash benefits, such as medical care services, that the needy recieve from some social welfare programs