Thursday, January 5, 2023

Week 15

2305: Chapter 16: Social Policy
2306: Chapter 13: Budget Finances, and Policy

Chapter 16: Social Policy
- social policy
- risks and insecurities
- programs for the elderly
- social security
- medical assistance
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Affordable Care Act
- alleviate poverty
- redistribution
- equality of opportunity
- education
- welfare state
- entitlement programs
- contributory programs
- indexing
- unemployment insurance
- noncontributory programs
- public assistance programs
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
- means testing
- Supplemental Security Income
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
- in-kind benefits
- earned income tax credit
- Elementary and Secondary Policy
- GI Bill
- higher education
- health and housing
- Pell Grant program
- War on Drugs

2306: Chapter 13: Budget Finances, and Policy
- sales tax revenue
- budget
- state tax revenue
- sales. motor vehicle, motor fuel, franchise, gas and oil production
- local property tax revenue
- school, special, county, city
- property tax
- homestead exemption
- sin taxes
- fees and fines
- rainy day funds
- income tax
- budget cycle
- general revenue funds
- limitations
- pay as you go
- spending cap
- dedicated and non-dedicated revenue
- dual processing process
- fiscal note
- appropriation bill
- riders





Equal Treatment and Civil Rights


- Hierarchy

- Citizenship

- 14th Amendment

- Backlash


Lecture Topics: 

- Public Finance: Definition.
- Public Finance: Government Expenditures.
- Public Finance: Government Revenue.
- United States Treasury security.
- Fiscal Federalism.
- United States federal budget.
- Federal grants in the United States.
- Administration of federal assistance in the United States.
- 2023 Fiscal Size-Up.
- Brazoria County: Budget Data by Year.
- City of Alvin Annual Budget.
- Alvin Independent School District Budget.
- Alvin Community College District Budget.

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ACC

- Public Opinion
- - Zone of Acquiescence
- - Overton Window

- Article 1, Section 8.

- First Congress.
- Executive Agencies.
- - The First Three Departments: 
- - - State.
- - - War / Defense.
- - - Treasury.
- - The First Executive Agencies
- - - U.S. Customs Service. (ports of entry)
- - - The Attorney General
- - - The Census
- - - Naturalization Act
- - - Patent Act
- - - Crimes Act
- - - Copyright Act
- - - Residence Act
- - - Indian Intercourse Act
- - - Funding Act
- - - Collection of Duties Act
- - - Revenue Marine - U.S. Coast Guard
- - - First Bank of the United States
- - - Tariff of 1791.

- Judicial Branch
- - Federal Judiciary





UH

- Crime, Corrections, and Public Safety

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Topics: Equal Treatment



GOVT 2305

WTP - Chapter 14: Domestic and Foreign Policy



GOVT 2306

LSP - Chapter 14: Energy, Environment, Transportation, and Immigration Policy 

Terminology: 

Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
Education Reform Act
entitlement programs
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Medicaid
Medicare
Permanent University Fund (PUF)
redistributive programs
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB)