President Bill Clinton signed the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which replaced the old AFDC program with TANF (Temporary Aid to Needy Families). TANF
a. guarantees welfare to all eligible people regardless of the state in which they live.
b. limits welfare support to only two years at a time and for five years in the lifetime of any adult in the household.
c. expanded the food stamp program since it was one of the more successful elements of the earlier welfare program.
d. distinguished between legal and illegal immigrants for the first time allowing assistance and food stamps for legal immigrants but not for illegal immigrants.
Ques. 2Which of the following is a critical factors influencing single fathers' compliance with child support?
a. Fathers' overall level of income
b. Fathers' attachment to their children
c. Fathers' attachment to their former spouse
d. all of the above
Ques. 3Workfare
a. jobs are required to provide health benefits.
b. jobs are required to pay at least 10 above minimum wage.
c. recipients become low-wage, nonunion competitors for jobs which eliminate jobs and union strength among regular workers.
d. recipients have a 50 success rate for moving into regular jobs and getting out of poverty and welfare.
Ques. 4Aulette interviewed people targeted for the Stepping Stone program, which is designed to help people leave public housing and make a down payment on a house. She found that people were hesitant to participate in the program. Why?
a. They liked the nice apartments in the public housing projects.
b. They did not want to move away and leave their neighbors who were often friends and sometimes family.
c. Because public housing operated like insurance against economic difficulties.
d. They objected to the government intrusion into their private financial lives.
Ques. 5Researchers compared the levels of hunger and malnutrition in poverty-stricken areas of the United States before and after the implementation of nutrition and food stamp programs. They concluded that the programs
a. actually made the situation worse because it encouraged people to become dependent on government handouts which were discontinued when the funding ran out halfway through the fiscal year.
b. had not made much difference in hunger and malnutrition because of bureaucratic misapplication -- too much aid was given to people who did not really need it and too little was given to people who really did need it.
c. helped many and reduced hunger and malnutrition by about half but needed to be expanded to help more.
d. virtually eliminated hunger and made it difficult to find much evidence of the malnutrition identified in the earlier study.
Ques. 6Most divorced women who have been homemakers and out of the work force for some period of time prefer to go to work rather than rely upon other sources of support such as welfare assistance.
a. true
b. false
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