GOVT 2306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Relative Deprivation, Social Darwinism, Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act
8 Sep 2016
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Texas education sucks: maybe use educational alternatives. Objectives: understand the differences between social insurance and public assistance programs, identify the poor, debate the two contrasting views of poverty and welfare in the united states. 5 categories: income maintenance, nutrition, social services, housing assistance, health. Programs serve: different clientele, difference bases of funding. Pay into a segregated fund to pay program costs. General taxpayer support is not involved: viewed as debits on a prepaid account. Public assistance programs: taxpayers largely foot the bill. Recipients may be required to pay some limited fees: viewed as welfare. Insurance programs: social security, unemployment compensation, worker"s compensation. Defined as the min subsistence income needed to survive without deprivation. Anyone below income level is deemed to be poor. Typically in the us the poverty line is computed at three times the income needed to eat according to a modest food plan: relative deprivation. Define poverty relative to a societies overall standard of living.
