HDFS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Child Support, Temporary Assistance For Needy Families
14 Feb 2018
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Explicit policy: achieve specific goals in regards to families. No fault divorce laws: singles do not benefit. Childcare tax credit, child support enforcement, family violence laws, Example: affordable care act: anyone can benefit, save hundreds of dollars instead of out of pocket. Before the great depression: little government assistance to families. During and after the gd: families couldn"t turn to families because everyone was in trouble. Social security act (1935): family wage system: designed with the family wage system in mind (men worked, women stayed home with kids) rewarded men in the workforce. Many families burned through retirement savings from tgd, this act was a solution to tgd. Aid to dependent children (adc) (1935): help women raising children without a husband (cid:523)other than death(cid:524) she could collect his ss if he died, if he wasn"t working she had no income. Name changed (welfare for the next 35 years) aid to families with dependent children (afdc) (1962)
