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In-Kind benefit
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not cash, but food stamps that can be spent only on grocery items.
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Means Test
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applicants must prove that they are poor enough to qualify for the benefit.
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Public Assistance
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prgrams are funded through general tax revenues and are available only to the finanically needy.
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Social Insurance
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social welfare programs based on the "insurance" concept , so that individuals must pay into the program in order to be eligible to recieve funds from it.
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Entitlement Programs
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that any individual who meets the critieria for eligibilty is entitled to benefit.
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Transfer Payments
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government benefits given directly to individual recipients, such as the monthly social security checks that retirees receieve.
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Positive Government
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the idea that government intervention is necessary in order to enhance personal liberty and security when individuals are buffeted by economic and socail forces beyond their control.
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Negative Government
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which holds that government governs best by staying out of peoples lives, giving them as much freedom as possible to determine their own pursuits and encouraging them to become self- reliant.
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Poverty Line
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the annual cost of a thirfty food budget for an urban family of four, multiplied by three to allow also for the cost of housing, clothes, and other necessities.
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