(From Government in America, AP* Edition: People, Politics, and Policy, 15th Edition)
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| 6499047280 | Social Welfare Policies | Policies that provide benefits, cash or in-kind, to individuals, based on either entitlement or means testing. | 0 | |
| 6499047281 | Entitlement Programs | Government programs providing benefits to qualified individuals regardless of need. | 1 | |
| 6499047282 | Means-Tested Programs | Government programs providing benefits only to individuals who qualify based on specific needs. | 2 | |
| 6499047283 | Income Distribution | The way the national income is divided into "shares" ranging from the poor to the rich. | 3 | |
| 6499047284 | Relative Deprivation | A perception by an individual that he or she is not doing well economically in comparison to others. | 4 | |
| 6499047285 | Income | The amount of money collected between any two points in time. | 5 | |
| 6499047286 | Wealth | The value of assets owned. | 6 | |
| 6499047287 | Poverty Line | The income threshold below which people are considered poor, based on what a family must spend for an "austere" standard of living, traditionally set at three times the cost of a subsistence diet. | 7 | |
| 6499047288 | Feminization of Poverty | The increasing concentration of poverty among women, especially unmarried women and their children. | 8 | |
| 6499047289 | Progressive Tax | A tax by which the government takes a greater share of the income of the rich than of the poor | 9 | |
| 6499047290 | Proportional Tax | A tax by which the government takes the same share of income from everyone, rich and poor alike. |  | 10 |
| 6499047291 | Regressive Tax | A tax in which the burden falls relatively more heavily on low-income groups than on wealthy taxpayers. The opposite of a progressive tax, in which tax rates increase as income increases. | 11 | |
| 6499047292 | Earned Income Tax Credit | The Earned Income Tax Credit, or the EITC, is a refundable federal income tax credit for low- to moderate-income working individuals and families, even if they did not earn enough money to be required to file a tax return. | 12 | |
| 6499047293 | Transfer Payments | Benefits given by the government directly to individuals - either cash transfers, such as Social Security payments, or in-kind transfers, such as food stamps and low-interest college loans. |  | 13 |
| 6499047294 | Social Security Act of 1935 | Created both the Social Security program and a national assistance program for poor families, usually called Aid to Families with Dependent Children. | 14 | |
| 6499047295 | Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act | The welfare reform law of 1996, which implemented the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. *Temporary Assistance for Needy Families* ---Established by the PRWORA | 15 | |
| 6499047296 | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | Replacing Aid to Families with Dependent Children as the program for public assistance to needy families, TANF requires people on welfare to find work within two years and sets a lifetime maximum of five years. | 16 | |
| 6499047297 | Social Security Trust Fund | The "account" into which Social Security employee and employer contributions are "deposited" and used to pay out eligible recipients. | 17 |
