Congress abandoned AFDC in 1996 with passage of a new welfare reform act called the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which stipulates that adults have up to two years to find a job without losing benefits and a lifetime limit of five years to receive benefits. Recipients must also work a minimum of 20–30 hours per week
a. True
b. False
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True
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Which of the following is true with regard to health care in the United States?
a. The U.S. population is aging and thus requires increasing public expenditures for Medicare and Medicaid. b. The cost of health care is increasing at a lower rate than inflation. c. Most Americans receive adequate health insurance through their employers. d. All Americans are adequately covered by private health insurance policies. e. The U.S. population is growing so prosperous that it will not require Medicare or Medicaid.
The White House lobbies Congress primarily through the
A. White House Lobbying Counsel. B. Executive Office of the President. C. Executive Legal Advisory Group. D. Office of Legislative Affairs. E. Office of Management and Budget.
______ states that the leadership of organization such as political parties will never be faithful to the program and constituency that gave rise to the organization in the first place.
A. Strategic effect of electoral laws B. Duverger’s theory C. Michels’s iron law of oligarchy D. Freezing hypothesis
The New Deal was Harry Truman's policy program for preventing and overcoming poverty
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