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This is a supplement to Social Security for the elderly.
Medicare
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This program was designed to buffer the high cost of medical care that Senior Citizens generally face.
Medicare
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Problems with Medicare
High cost which is rapidly increasing and the fact that Medicare is only a supplemental insurance for seniors
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This is a public healthcare program funded out of general revenue for
the very poor.
Medicaid
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The main problem for which program is the High cost associated with providing free healthcare to the very poor
Medicaid
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What does SCHIP stand for?
State Children's Health Insurance Program
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This program was designed to cover over half of the uninsured children in the country
SCHIP
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This program is funded through Block Grants to each state to administer this program
SCHIP
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Healthcare law that was passed last year was an:
- Employment based Healthcare program where everyone is required to have
- insurance and employers of larger businesses are required to provide this
- coverage for their employees.
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If any law is deemed unconsitutional by the US Supreme Court it is...
no longer considered law
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Federal Law that provided limited assistance to local schools for
textbooks, libraries and other instructional material.
Elementary and Secondary Education of 1965
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This act worked to end discrimination by employers where hiring minortities or traditional discriminated groups
Civil Rights Act of 1964
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The act of giving preferential treatment to persons of a minority race when hiring them
Racial Preference
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Essentailly this idea means placing less emphasis on qualificatios are more emphasis on race to choose employees
Racial Preference
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a group of policies implemented starting in the 1960’s to redistribute
social benefits to those groups who had less than their share
Affirmative Action
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This meant that if there was 10% African American in the community there
should be 10% African Americans working in all businesses
Affirmative Action
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The most obvious policy in Affirmative Action is the:
Implementation of Quotas
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How long do most farm bills last?
About 5 years
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How much is the current farm bill worth?
307 billion dollars
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What percentage of the farm bill goes to farmers?
Less than 17%
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What percentage of the farm bill goes to Food stamps/School lunches?
74%
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What is based upon a crop base that has been established for certain crops?
Direct Payments
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This in an example of what?
If a farmer has 120 acres with a cotton base average on it then he receives X amount of dollars per acre.
Direct Payments
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The payment is true price support
Counter Cyclical Payment (CP)
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A tagret price for each subsidized commodity is established and if the price at Harvest time is less than the target price, the farmer gets a difference check.
What is this called?
Counter Cyclical Payment
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For Counter Cyclical Payment, what happens if the price is at or above the target price at harvest time?
The farmer receives no difference check (Like this year)
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The ___ million bales raised on the south plains of Texas every year equate to over _____ dollars to the South Plains economy
- 4.5 million bales
- 6 billion dollars
(This goes beyond just selling cotton. Cotton farmer sells his cotton buys a tractor, a pickup and a travel trailer and so on and so on)
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