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1"Social welfare policy is anything the government chooses to do, or not to do, that affects the quality of life of it's people".
- ATrue
- BFalse
2Social Workers:
- Ahave a professional obligation to be knowledgeable about policy
- Bparticipate in policy formulation
- Cexecute policies through program and service delivery
- Dmust all participate in the political policy making process
3What are the categories of government programs?
- Apublic assistance
- Bsocial insurance
- Csocial services
- Dsocial justice
4Public assistance, such as TANF, SNAP, Medicaid, SSI, public housing, housing subsidies, and school lunches/breakfasts, are called residual.
- ATrue
- BFalse
5Residual policies are inappropriate when normal institutional arrangements break down. They are acute need.
- ATrue
- BFalse
6Which of the following are examples of social insurance?
- ASocial security, medicare, unemployment, worker's compensation
- BTANF, SNAP, SSI, public housing.
- Cmental health care, victims services, child and elder protective services.
7Social insurance is considered residual policy.
- ATrue
- BFalse
8Which of the following are nationally agreed upon social services?
- Achild and elder protective services
- BTANF
- CSNAP
- DSocial security
9Identifying social problems, exploring all solutions, forecasting the benefits and costs of each solution, comparing the benefits of each, and lastly, selecting the option that achieves the greatest benefit at the lowest cost is...
- Apolicy making as a rational process
- Bpolicy making as an irrational process
- Cpolicy making as a political process
- Dpolicy making as an incremental approach
10Barriers to the rational approach includes social values always being agreed upon, along with agreement on how problems are defined. Values are easily prioritized.
- ATrue
- BFalse
11The 8 P's are preparation, planning, personal contact, pulse of the community, positivism, participation, publicity, and persistence.
- ATrue
- BFalse
12The Incremental model focuses on modifying existing programs. They consider existing policies, programs, or expenditures at the base. They accomplish this by accelerating the choices that produce positive results.
- ATrue
- BFalse
13Select all which are points of public policy
- AExecutives
- Bjudicial
- Clegislators
- Dexecutives
- Ecommunity
14Political policies (executive) make policy and are not limited to solely carrying out policies made by others.
- ATrue
- BFalse
15______ policies are ones in which judges are expected to restrain from personal values in deference to precedent and tradition. They read existing laws and make public policy based on their interpretation of whatever statue or case policy already exists.
- AJudicial
- BExecutive
- Cadministrative
- Dlegislative
16_________ policy- making is made within a certain context and is restricted by their function. They can't make policies that would create new programs or make any changes to existing programs.
- AJudicial
- BExecutive
- CAdministrative
- DLegislative
17_________ policies involve development of statute law, the most forceful of all public policy. They may follow an established agenda.
- AJudicial
- BAdministrative
- CExecutive
- DLegislative
18Statute Law is established by judicial decision and precedent, but case law is established by legislative enactment.
- ATrue
- BFalse
19Who has key responsibility for designing the proposed budget (2 years in advance)?
- AThe President
- BCongress
- CThe Office of Management and the Budget
- Dthe Vice President
20Congress doesn't increase or decrease the budget for mandatory spending, but they often change eligibility requirements to lower the cost.
- ATrue
- BFalse
21Congress establishes
- Abudget priorities
- Brevenues
- Cexpenditures
- Ddebt
22Authorization establishes programs, and appropriation provides budget authority to run those programs. The appropriation enables an agency to sign contracts for services to begin and commits the government to pay the contract sums when the contract is fulfilled.
- ATrue
- BFalse
23Congress is NOT ALLOWED to vote the authority of appropriations without appropriating the funds to meet the obligation.
- ATrue
- BFalse
24Reconciliation (via authorizing legislation and committees) can target discretionary spending but not entitlements and mandatory spending.
- ATrue
- BFalse
25Methods used to control spending include
- Aspending caps, pay-as-you-go requirements, and sequestration
- Beliminating programs all together
- Cbudgeting, spending caps, and sequestration
- Dbudgeting, pay-as-you-go requirements, and spending caps.
26A sequester, withholding of funds across the board, is a result of PAYGO principles being violated or discretionary spending caps being exceeded.
- ATrue
- BFalse
27___________ is a non-binding resolution passed by both chambers of Congress to set overall spending limits. However, it does not decide funding for specific programs.
- AReconciliation
- BSpending Caps
- CSequester
- DBudget Resolution
28Which are supports to bill passage?
- Abuying support
- Bgaining multiple sponsors who are also influential
- Callowing for public support through open hearings
- Dbipartisan sponsorship
29Put these in order:
1. President signs or vetoes
2. voted on by the full committee
3. Congress introduces the idea into the house or the senate
4. debates and votes on passage
5. referred to committee/ subcommittees for further observation
6. goes to the house-senate conference committee- A3, 5, 6, 4, 1
- B3, 5, 2, 4, 6, 1
- C3, 2, 5, 4, 6, 1
- D1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
30A pocket veto is when Congress adjourns within the 10 days a President has to act on a bill, and the President takes no actions.
- ATrue
- BFalse
31Rational policy analysis addresses
- AHow the problem is defined and what the cause of the problem is.
- Bthe proposed policy alternatives and what they intend to accomplish.
- CThe cost of the proposed policy.
- Dwhat the public thinks of the proposed policy and the unintended effects of the policy.
32The feminization of poverty is partially due to the traditional idea that women are not major wage earners, and their jobs are considered "secondary" or "temporary". They have been labeled as less trained/educated.
- ATrue
- BFalse
33Less generous public assistance has historically been for _____________, and more generous social insurance has targeted __________.
- AWomen/ male workers
- BWomen and children/ male workers
- Cmale workers/ children
- Dwomen and children/ elderly population
34In 1920. the 20th amendment gave women the right to vote.
- ATrue
- BFalse
35Roe V. Wade addressed
- Agay marriage (legalizing it)
- Babortion (what is acceptable?)
- Cequal rights (for African Americans)
36Women are more likely to experience PTSD from violence (rape, attempted rape) then men.
- ATrue
- BFalse
37Domestic Violence can include an intimate partner OR any other family member. It does not include stalking or threats.
- ATrue
- BFalse
38Select all that are family care proposals:
- AWomen as caregivers to children, people with chronic illnesses and disability and for elderly adults
- Bchild care affordability
- Cincrease tax credits for child care and child care funds for families on TANF
- Dcommunity adult day care centers
- EExtend family and medical leave act of 1993 to more businesses (12 weeks of unpaid leave.
39Roe V. Wade ruled that the 5th and 14th amendments to the constitution guarantee all people "life, liberty, and property" but did not include unborn fetuses.
- ATrue
- BFalse
40What amendment prohibits federal funding for abortions due to Webster v. Reproductive Health services (1989) being upheld?
- ARoe amendment
- Bwade amendment
- Chyde amendment
- D14th amendment
41Domestic violence can only be physical.
- ATrue
- BFalse
42Social welfare policy as a political process...
- Ais about power
- Bwho gets what, when, and how
- Cconflict over the allocation of services and income
- Das the outcome of conflicts over who gets what
- Eall of these options
- Fnone of these options
43The 20th century mainly invovled which of the following
- Aeconomic depressions in the 1870s, 1880s, & 1890s and industrialization/ urbanization,
- Breconstruction, blacks northern migration and huge Europeans immigration
- CUnion Strikes: 1892-1894: copper miners, steelworkers, pullman railroad workers
- DThe Chinese exclusion
- EAll of these were pivotal events to the 20th century.
44_________ noted the relationship between illness and dependency, the importance of public health education, and mobilized communities to prevent illness.
- ADoctors
- BNurses
- CSocial Workers
- DHealth officers
45Why was there resistance to public health programs?
- AThere was a lack of knowledge. Many believed that disease was a curse from God.
- Bfunding for the construction of drains and sewers would have resulted in higher taxes.
- Cpeople were able to get positions in the health field when they were not qualified.
- DMany MDs did not want to report cases of TB due to stigma and fear of patient suicide.
46The 1913 Public health law created the public health council. This council enacted sanitation for the state and to make eligibility rules for all public health positions.
- ATrue
- BFalse
47Social workers were a part of the public health campaign. They actively educated the public and used their political resourcefulness.
- ATrue
- BFalse
48Facilities that were created for the treatment of TB
- Aignored blacks
- Bserved blacks separately from whites
- Cserved both blacks and whites together with no issue
49___________, 1896, the Supreme court upheld de jure racial segregation of "separate but equal" facilities.
- APoverty, the classic work by Robert Hunter
- BRoe v. Wade
- CPlessy v. Ferguson
- D1913 Public Health Law
50Robert Hunter's classic work, "Poverty", states that at least 15 million Americans (or 1/7) are poor.
- ATrue
- BFalse
51Life for a poor child from 1880-1920 could have included
- Ainstitutionalization (removed from county almshouses and placed in institutions specifically for children "orphan" asylums.
- BPlacing our and boarding out (paying another family for care)
- CFactory work
- Dbeing orphaned by war or high rate of maternal deaths
- Ebeing left unsupervised
52Children were viewed as a kay component of social control and as the hope or threat to the future (during the 1880s...)
- ATrue
- BFalse
53What was the outcome of placing out (moving 50,000 children from NYC)?
- Ano supervision or follow up. Children were used as unpaid labor, left uneducated, and 60% became sources of trouble and public expenditures.
- BThey were all placed in juvenile courts as an effort to control children of the lower, dangerous classes.
- Cwas proven to be a sophisticated program.
54_______ was the director of the Department of Labor. This individual was appropriated 25,640 and used it to focus on infant mortality (because everyone can support the children). In 1921, 1,252,000 was appropriated for 5 years to research mother and infant health.
- AJane Addams
- BJulia Lathrop
- CDr. Flexner
- DBertha Reynolds
55The decline in settlement houses was partially due to legislation supporting the areas of wages, hours, housing, the prohibition of child labor, the establishment of public health programs, and public education.
- ATrue
- BFalse
56Four basic issues with social welfare policy as a political process are 1. What are the nature and causes of social problems? What is the role of government? How much should tax payers pay? How should these questions be decided?
- ATrue
- BFalse
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