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Discussion question on Poverty:
Points to be discussed:
1. To examine some of the causes of differences in income, and to describe and analyze some of the government policies that attempt to reduce poverty.
2. To make the people aware of the two basic types of government programs: those that seek to reduce the causes of poverty (such as training and education programs, antidiscrimination policies, the prevention of unemployment or disability, and day care), and those that reduce the symptoms of poverty (such as Social Security, insuring unemployment and disability, welfare, Medicareand Medicaid, public housing, and food stamps).
3. To show how the Social Security program is designed, how it developed from an insurance program to a transfer program, and how it helped to reduce poverty.
4. To show the goals and problems of job-training programs for the poor.
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