AP GOV VOCAB 18
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| social welfare policies | policies that provide benefits to individuals, particularly to those in need
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| entitlement programs | policies for which expenditures are ucontrollable because Congress has in effect obligated iself to pay X level benefits to Y number of recipients
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| means-tested programs | government programs available only to individuals below a poverty line
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| income distribution | the shares of the national income earned by varios groups
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| income | amount of funds collected between any two points in time
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| wealth | amount of funds alrady owned
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| poverty line | method used to count the number of poor people, it consders what a family would need to spend for an austere standard of living
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| feminization of poverty | increasing concentration of poverty among women, especially unmarried women and their children
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| progressive tax | tax by which the government takes a greater share of the incoe of the rich than of the poor
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| proportional tax | tax by which the government takes the same share of income from evryone, rich and poor alike
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| regressive tax | tax in which the burden falls relatively more heavily upon low-income groups than upon wealthy taxpayers
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| tax incidence | proportion of its income a particular group pays in taxes
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| earned income tax credit | negative income tax that provides income to very poor individuals in lieu of charging them federal tax
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| transfer payments | benefits given by the government directly to individuals
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| temporary assistance to needy families | once called aid to families with dependent children, the new name for public assistance to needy families
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