What is a federal social program that provides limited health care services to the poor?
a. Medicare
b. Medicaid
c. Salvation Army
d. Aid to Dependent Families
e. Welfare
Question -2-What is the federal program that provides health insurance for the elderly in general?
a. Medicare
b. Medicaid
c. Prudential
d. Aid to Dependent Families
e. Social Security
Question -3-During which presidential administration did the United States witness its first substantial creation of federal welfare programs as it actively expanded the welfare state to include education, health care, and assistance to the poor?
a. Franklin Roosevelts New Deal era of the 1930s
b. Lyndon Johnsons Great Society era of 1960s
c. the Carter administration in the late 1970s
d. the Reagan administration in the 1980s
e. the Bush administration beginning in 2001
Question -4-The U.S. government was vigorously protective of its capitalist origins and resisted assuming broad welfare state functions, until
a. WWI made people aware of the government-funded programs in Europe.
b. environmental protection and conservation became a policy priority.
c. the Great Depression exposed the harsh realities that unfettered capitalism can occasionally impose on the masses.
d. the Johnson administrations Great Society initiatives of the 1960s.
e. the influence of government labor motivated all Americans to demand benefits.
Question -5-What is an economic system in which all or most of the means of production are owned by the community as a whole?
a. socialism
b. capitalism
c. communism
d. individualism
e. libertarianism
Question -6-What is an economic system in which all or most of the means of production are privately owned under competitive conditions?
a. welfare state
b. police state
c. capitalism
d. socialism
e. communism
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