| A | B |
|---|
| First U.S. legislation, in 1935, providing for an income transfer program | Social Security Act |
| Federally funded program that provides health care to the poor | Medicaid |
| Legislation enacted in 1965 providing medical insurance for the elderly | Medicare |
| Financial assistance to the poor that replaced the AFDC program | TANF |
| Pre-1935 state programs to aid widows with children | mother's pension |
| Pre-1935 state run or locally-run homes for the poor | almshouses |
| Huey Long's proposal to redistribute income in the United States | Share Our Wealth plan |
| Upton Sinclair's proposal to redistribute income in California | EPIC |
| Proposal to provide all elderly people with #200 per month | Townsend Plan |
| Devolved the former AFDC program to the states | Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act |
| Benefits paid weekly to laid-off workers unable to find jons | UI |
| Formerly federally funded program that made payments to poor families with children | AFDC |
| Cash payments to poor people who are aged, blind, or disabled | SSI |
| Vouchers given to the poor to buy food at grocery stores | food stamps |
| The mechanism by which payments rise automatically when costs do | indexing |
| A proviso that only those below a specified poverty level qualify for a program | means test |
| Policy-making in which almost everybody benefits and almost everybody pays | majoritarian politics |
| An approach to welfare that aims to give poor people job training or government jobs rather than money | service strategy |
| Legislation adopted in 1988 to protect the elderly against the costs of long-term medical care; later repealed | Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act |
| Policy-making in which relatively few people benefit but everybody pays | client politics |
| AN approach to welfare in which poor people are given money | income strategy |
| A program financed by income taxes that provides benefits to poor citizens without requiring contributions from them | assistance program |
| A self-financing program based on contributions that provides benefits to unemployed or retired persons | insurance program |
| A provision of the 1975 tax law that entitles working families with children to receive money if their incomes fall below a certain level | earned income credit |
