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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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