Tags & Description
Libertarians
________ evaluate the economic outcomes by observing the process where these outcomes arrive.
Utilitarians
________ do not expect complete equality because of incentives, and how people respond to them.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
________ (SNAP) gives plastic cards that buy food at stars.
SNAP
Welfare, Medicaid, ________, and EITC are all programs aimed to help the poor but are tied to a lower family income.
Supplemental Security Income
________ (SSI) helps those who are sick and disabled.
Poverty
________ is correlated with race, age, and family composition.
Life cycle
________: The regular pattern of income variation, where income rises, peaks at age 50 and falls at a retiring age of 65.
Liberalism
________ aims to maximize the minimum utility or raise the poverty line.
Utility
________: the level of happiness or satisfaction a person receives from their decisions.
Economic mobility
________ depends on luck and work.
Welfare
________: government programs that supplement the incomes of the needy.
Social insurance
________: government policy aimed at protecting people against the risk of adverse events Libertarianism.
Quintiles
________: when a statistical group is divided into five equal groups.
material standards of living
Inequality in ________ is lesser than inequality in annual income.
annual incomes
Family ________ do not measure the standard of living.
Minimum wage
________ helps the working poor without costing the government, but others view it to hurt those who it intends to help.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
________ (TANF) assists families with children but no adult able to support the family.
Poverty line
________: 3x the cost of providing a fulfilling diet, set by the federal government.
marginal utility
Redistributing income is based on diminishing ________.
Permanent income
________ and consumption are less affected by transitory changes.
Maximin criterion
________: the claim that the government should aim to maximize the well- being of the worst- off person in society.
persons wage
A(n) ________ depends on the supply and demand for the persons labor.
poor person
A(n) ________ will benefit more from $ 1 than a rich person.
Poverty
________ is one of the most difficult problems that politics has to face.
Utilitarians
________ use individual decisions to question bigger issues dealing with morality and public policy.
Economic mobility
________: the movement of people between income classes.
Liberalism
________: the political philosophy according to which the government should choose policies deemed as just, as evaluated by an impartial observer behind a "veil of ignorance.
Utilitarianism
________: the political philosophy according to which the government should choose policies to maximize the total utility of everyone in society.