Discuss how the Welfare Reform Act impacted the poor
What will be an ideal response?
The student should assert that in 1996, President Clinton signed into law the Welfare Reform Act. This new law put limits on benefits that welfare recipients are eligible to receive. Unemployed people ages 18 to 50 years who are not raising children are limited to three months of food stamps for any three-year period of joblessness. All welfare recipients are required after two years, to work, enroll in vocational training, or to perform community service. The number of people on welfare rolls decreased; this did not improve the plight of the poor. Many were not eligible under the new rules, yet they remained poor.
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ANSWER:
Standardized measures or level-of-functioning scales are used to measure changing levels of client __________ and progress.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
You are a student and you do not own a car. All your close friends who are attending your college or university have vehicles of their own. You feel downtrodden and dissatisfied. You are experiencing
A. relative deprivation B. resource mobilization C. false consciousness D. depression
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)