Deck 8: American Poverty: the Dream Turned Nightmare

Question 1

The "undeserving poor" include

A)the elderly
B)children
C)people with serious illness or physical disability
D)drug addicts

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The "underclass" is characterized by

A)high rates of high school completion
B)a wide variety of job skills
C)physical and/or mental disabilities
D)long work histories

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Children are among the "deserving poor."

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Some job training programs provide "soft skill" and "hard skill" training which include all of the following except

A)developing manners
B)developing personal habits like friendliness in order to relate to co-workers,bosses,and the public
C)specific teachable abilities associated with a particular job
D)learning how to move into management positions by doing more work without more pay

Question 5

The purpose of the "War on Poverty" was to

A)engage in wars with those countries that did not support globalization
B)crack down on companies that were not providing enough jobs for Americans
C)to decrease the number of people on welfare
D)to increase the number of welfare programs

Question 6

Poorhouse occupants were most often

A)those who were desperately poor
B)those who were the undeserving poor
C)those who were the deserving poor
D)children

Question 7

The inability of poor workers to be able to use public transportation to and from their jobs is called

A)poor worker's temporal mismatch
B)poor worker's spatial mismatch
C)poor worker's bad luck
D)floundering family

Question 8

Low-income students are less likely to benefit from parental involvement because

A)low-income mothers do not often have the flexible schedules or paid leave of their middle-class or upper-class counterparts
B)even when the students are having problems,teachers are likely to assume the parents are uninvolved or uninterested in their children's education
C)parents are less likely to be able to name one of their children's teachers
D)parents feel isolated from their child's school and teachers
E)all of the above

Question 9

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ended

A)Social Security
B)Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
C)Assistance to Families with Dependent Children
D)federal income taxes for the poor

Question 10

Most early Aid to Dependent Children programs

A)excluded minority women
B)excluded deserted,divorced,and separated mothers
C)were not biased in favor of traditional family structures and ideas of morality
D)aided mothers with illegitimate children

Question 11

The informal job sector includes

A)unlicensed childcare
B)prostitution
C)street vending
D)all of the above

Question 12

Measures that would improve poor children's educational experiences include

A)high-quality early childhood education at the preschool level
B)a low teacher-pupil ratio
C)instructors who are parents
D)college graduates in fields like science,math,and technology

Question 13

One criticism of the official U.S.measure of poverty is that it

A)does not take into consideration variations in the cost of living around the country
B)it does not take into consideration the cost of food
C)it takes into consideration the cost of food but doesn't acknowledge the decrease in the cost of food
D)into consideration childcare and healthcare costs which are minimal

Question 14

The official U.S.measure of poverty

A)is flexible
B)takes into consideration the minimal cost of shelter
C)takes into consideration the minimal cost for nutritionally healthy diet
D)takes into consideration the length of time one has owned their home

Question 15

According to Doob,the changing makeup of families on welfare roles in the early 1950s-1960s was due to all but which of the following?

A)increasing numbers of minority families who encountered unemployment and persistent poverty
B)organizations and politicians supporting those groups who had previously been excluded from receiving aid
C)an increase in African American families moving from the South to the North
D)an increasing number of minorities having children

Question 16

The cycle of poverty is the way in which people are pulled into poverty once they drop from their middle-class status.

Question 17

High-stakes testing has been

A)praised for holding all students to the same mainstream standards regardless of social class
B)criticized for holding all students to the same mainstream standards regardless of social class
C)praised by teachers because the test preparation allows them to focus on the students' test taking skills
D)criticized by wealthier schools that are less likely to afford the books,supplies,and practice exams needed for tests that poor schools receive for free through local taxes

Question 18

Government efforts to deal with the poor do not distinguish between the deserving poor and the undeserving poor.

Question 19

Educators and students show their disapproval for the pedagogy of poverty when

A)teachers assign homework that is challenging
B)educators are more concerned about controlling children's behavior in the classroom than what the students learn
C)teachers and administrators have low-expectations of students
D)students respond angrily or apathetically to changes in the curriculum that require they engage in more rigorous coursework

Question 20

When it comes to the undeserving poor,the philosophy of "blaming the victim" exists.

Question 21

Describe how "the cycle of poverty" philosophy and the "blaming the victim" philosophy explain the existence of poverty.

Question 22

Poor people's employment has been impacted in several ways.Explain three of these and explain how these impact their future employment opportunities.

Question 23

Poor people's job opportunities have been impacted by technological change.

Question 24

Some TANF recipients have found it is economically more feasible to remain on TANF than to work.

Question 25

The child poverty in twenty-six nations finds the U.S.with the second highest number of children in poverty,with Mexico having the highest number.

Question 26

Poorhouses were extremely beneficial in helping poor families to survive and to pull themselves out of poverty.

Question 27

TANF ended programs that had previously assisted poor families by providing them with schooling and job training.

Question 28

The absolute threshold of poverty means all people who are absolutely in a state of poverty.

Question 29

In the 1980s,President Ronald Reagan coined the term "disco queen" to refer to African American women who had children in order to obtain and remain on welfare.

Question 30

"Tracking" is when educators place students into remedial classes solely on the basis of race or social class without evaluating their abilities first.

Question 31

Poor children are equally as likely as their more affluent peers to have health problems.

Question 32

Explain the development of welfare programs by describing who their beneficiaries were and how the perception of the beneficiaries impacted public and government support for these programs.

Question 33

The official U.S.measure of poverty is outdated.

Question 34

How are childcare and effective schooling linked to family finances?

Question 35

Explain how poverty is measured and how the poverty level is determined.

Question 36

How does family structure affect the types of problems the family may encounter? What are some of the strategies used by poor families to overcome them?

Question 37

The pedagogy of poverty has been instrumental in improving poor students' performance in the classroom.

Question 38

How are poor students disadvantaged by their poverty when it comes to building social capital? How does tracking increase the possibility of poor children becoming victims of social reproduction?