Budgeting for housing, child care, utilities, food, and unanticipated expenses on
a poverty-level income is incredibly challenging
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
ANS: T
PG: 133
Feedback: Families with minimum wage (or less) incomes are likely to remain
in poverty even when working full-time, 52 weeks per year. Budgeting for
housing, child care, utilities, food, clothing, transportation, costs associated with
medical and dental care, and unanticipated expenses on a poverty-level income
is incredibly challenging (Ehrenreich, 2001). Under such circumstances, saving
for an emergency fund, college, or retirement and investing in stocks or bonds
are virtually impossible. Daily expected and especially unexpected expenses
take up all available resources for millions of poor families.
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a. Fifty percent of school funding comes from local property taxes. b. Wealthy districts do not partially fund poor districts. c. Equalizing the funding is not likely to produce equal educational outcomes. d. all of the above
The Kayla McKean Child Protection Act:
a. Protects child welfare caseworkers from civil and criminal prosecution b. Places child welfare caseworkers at risk of prosecution if they fail to remove a child who is later abused c. Places child welfare caseworkers at risk of prosecution if they fail to remove a child who is later murdered by a caregiver d. Has had the unintended effect of "foster care panic" with an overplacement of children in foster care e. Both B and D
"Prescribing the symptom" is a form of:
a. paradoxical intervention b. non-paradoxical communication c. therapeutic double-bind d. none of the above
RPS was popularized and standardized as casework problem solving in
a. the 1950s. b. the early Industrial Revolution. c. the Progressive Era. d. the Information Revolution.