Question 1

Discuss the rising costs of health care and governmental efforts to address them.

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Question 2

Thinking about how the poverty level was defined before the mid-1960s, explain how a drop in the proportion of income spent on food would affect people receiving means-tested public assistance.

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Question 3

Discuss the role education programs played in the Great Society's War on Poverty. Explain how the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 reflects that role.

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Question 4

Compare the National Defense Education Act of 1958 and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. To what degree are the programs focused on the same goal?

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Question 5

Discuss the problems facing the American health-care system prior to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the ways in which the ACA does or does not address those problems effectively.

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Question 6

Discuss the history of immigration restriction in the United States. Explain what motives were behind immigration policy, and evaluate how that has changed over the years.

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Question 7

Explain what the DREAM Act would do. Discuss whether that would be a form of "amnesty" opposed by conservative groups.

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Question 8

Who, other than the poor, are recipients of public assistance, and what types of assistance do they receive?

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Question 9

Can the Affordable Care Act be considered a program of national health insurance?

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Question 10

Review the issues raised by immigration into the United States and the proposed reforms to the immigration system.

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Question 11

Outline the goals of No Child Left Behind, and discuss the criticisms that have been made of its development and implementation. Also, discuss the Every Student Succeeds Act and the changes that have been implemented to it.

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Question 12

Discuss efforts taken by Congress and President Trump to deal with the issue of illegal immigration. Compare this to the efforts taken under the Obama administration.

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Question 13

Discuss the Bush and Obama administrations' proposals for legislation that would allow undocumented immigrants to become citizens. Explain the arguments against those proposals.

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Question 14

Describe the chief components of the Affordable Care Act and some of the controversies surrounding it.

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Question 15

Discuss how the Johnson-Reed Act limited immigration. Explain how compatible the current criteria for distributing green cards are, regarding that earlier law.

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Question 16

Explain what the feminization of poverty is. Discuss how the reforms to public assistance in the 1990s affected it.

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Question 17

Explain why critics of public assistance programs claim they make poverty attractive. Discuss whether the experiences of those receiving TANF benefits validate those criticisms.

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Question 18

Explain the principles underlying the American health-care system and the issues facing the system.

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Question 19

How is the poverty level measured, and why has criticism developed concerning the current formula? What alternative measure has been presented?

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Question 20

Describe the advantages and disadvantages of a nation having a substantial immigrant population.

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Quiz 18: Policymaking and Domestic Policy