Unit 5: The Welfare Reform Act Of 1996

Sofia Zarate
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3/22/15
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Unit 5 Take Home Exam

1. The Welfare Reform Act of 1996 created four different programs which include the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Supplemental Security Income, Food Stamps, and Earned-Income Tax Credit.
The Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) included means testing, which tests the people applying for TANF if they actually need the assistance or not. Another asset to the TANF is that the states can administer block grant programs. The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) just like the TANF it includes means testing to figure out if the person is qualified for it. The main objective of the SSI is to provide people that are qualified for it a minimum monthly income.
Foods Stamps, currently
2. The Social Security Act of 1935 was. Social Welfare Programs was primarily aimed to helping senior citizens, especially retirees. One huge program is The Old-Age Survivors Disability Insurance, also known as the OASDI, which helps most of the people working by the FICA (Federal Insurance Contribution Act) contributions which gives them payments every month to retirees, workers that are disabled, spouses, and even children of the retirees. Another big program is The Social Security Disability Insurance that gives money to disabled workers that are older than 50 year olds but younger than 64 years old. The Supplemental Security Income provides money to the people in need, the elderly, and the disabled. The AFDC, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, is when the federal government gives money to the states and the states distribute the money to low-income families that have a dependent child. Today, Social Welfare Programs emphasize the need to provide solutions to the
Another one was The Clean Water Act of 1972 and was a type of legislation that helped clean up most of the nation's waterways that were polluted. In a short period of five years after the legislation was passed pollution of some waterways began to disappear. The Endangered Species Act of 1973 protected all wildlife and plants that were endangered at that time. In the end, the act helped save our nation’s mascot, the bald eagle, and over 700 more species of wildlife/plants. The next act that was implemented is The Clean Air Act of 1970 which set standards to control pollution from vehicles and factories. Congressed passed revisions to The Clean Air Act in 1990 which tried to decrease chemicals that depleted the ozone layer and also reduce smog/ things that created acid rain. The last law that tried to save the environment was The Kyoto Protocol and was a huge nationwide effort to reduce emission of greenhouse gases that were a major cause of global warming. The problem was that President Bush never signed the treaty so it was never enacted because of the cost of reducing emissions was way too high that it would hurt the