Compare and contrast universal entitlements, social insurance, and means-tested public assistance when it comes to who is entitled to benefits within each category.

What will be an ideal response?

Students should be able to clearly explain that universal entitlement benefits are available to all citizens, social insurance benefits are available to only those who contributed to a public fund, and means-tested public assistance benefits are available only to those individuals who are most in need.

Political Science

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The right to have the government stay out of the personal lives of its citizens is known as

a. equal rights. b. minority rights c. free press. d. majority rule. e. the right to privacy.

Political Science

A school compared the grades of students with disabilities while they were in separate classrooms and a year later when the state required integrating these students into mainstream classrooms. What type of research is this?

a. Cross-sectional comparison b. Before-after study c. Interrupted time series study d. Difference in differences study

Political Science