Miller Government Ch. 22
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- domestic policy
- Policies that affect a nation's internal affairs
- felony
- a serious criminal offence punishable by imprisonment. the penalties range from one year in prison to death
- in-kind subsidy
- assistance that is given in forms other than cash, such as food stamps
- income transfer
- the transfer of income from one group to another, as with the farm program, and the transfer from one generation to another, as occurs in the Social Security program
- Social Security
- a government insurance program of obligatory savings financed from payroll taxes imposed on both employers and employees. Workers pay for the benefits after they retire.
- supplemental sucurity income (SSI)
- a government program that establishes a minimum income for the aged, the blind, and the disabled
- temperary assistance to needy families (TANF)
- funds in the form of grant, turned over to the states by the U.S. government; restrictions include a two-year limit on benefits unless recipient is working, and a five year maximum for benefits
- earned income tax credit (EITC)
- a program created in 1975 which gives back to low-income workers part or all of their social security taxes
- enviromental impact statement
- a statement mandated by the Environmental Policy act that must show the costs and benefits of federal actions that could significantly affect the quality of the environment
- global warming
- the annual increase in average climatic temperatures throughout the world
- green house affect
- the trapping of heat inside the earth's atmosphere, which is a result of pollution caused largely by the burning of fossil fuels, and the emissions of carbon dioxide
- kyoto protocol
- a 1997 agreement among industrial nations to reduce emissions of green house gasses