Discuss on the primary difference between social services and income security is:
income security provides non-monetary benefits such as addictions treatment and child welfare.
income security provides monetary assistance to those with no other source of income.
income security is seen as a way to appease the labour community, as an alternative to strikes and social unrest.
income security provides monetary benefits.
When reviewing a policy, it is important to consider whether it incorporates core social welfare values, including which of the following?
The inclusion lens
The equity lens
The social justice lens
All the above
According to researchers compiling the Canadian Index of Wellbeing, over 20 year the GDP increased almost 40%, while:
The CIW increased 60%
The CIW increased 30%
The CIW increased 20%
The CIW increased less than 10%
Canadian social welfare programs up to World War II could best be characterized as being essentially:
Residual in nature
Institutional in nature
Social investment in nature
Essentially non-existent
The term ‘deserving poor’ refers to:
children under the age of 19
people not physically able to work
families who had moved from the rural farms into urban cities
men who can work but cannot find employment
The period of time in North American income security history that was the most egalitarian and had strong mechanisms for sharing wealth and collective responsibility for the weakest was:
Prior to European arrival
The colonial period
The industrialization period
The welfare state period
Since the late 1900s, the level of corporate taxation in Canada has:
Increased
Decreased
Remained approximately the same
Gone up and down, more or less in random fashion
The “post-war consensus” in relation to social welfare refers to:
An agreement among nations that there would be no more World Wars and every effort would be made to prevent another Great Depressions
A kind of “peace” between labor and business, which allowed for the continued expansion of social welfare in the post-war period.
A concerted effort by governments and labor movement to end child and family poverty in Canada
Compromises made by successive minority governments during the post-war period that ultimately had the effect of making social policymaking over this period ineffectual.
Between 1974 and 1979, the town of Dauphin, Manitoba, entered into an experiment called “Mincome.” The Mincome experiment provides evidence that:
Basic income programs can be an effective strategy to address poverty
Basic income programs do not work at all
Basic income programs result in major social problems for the individuals involved and their community
Basic income programs have little or no effect
As social assistance rates decline and eligibility requirements for EI tighten, food bank usage by Canadians will likely:
Increase
Decrease slightly
Decrease by a large amount
Remain the about same
Section [B]: 10 True or False Questions (10 MARKS FOR THIS SECTION)
Instructions: Clearly circle only ONE correct answer for each question. If more than one answer is circled that question will be marked as incorrect.
Clearly indicate your answer. Each question is worth 1 mark each.
Government cutbacks and cost-saving measures in recent years have improved the ability of the welfare state to advance the well-being of Canadians.
TRUE or FALSE
In every jurisdiction, eligibility for social assistance is determined on the basis of a needs test, which takes into account a household’s financial assets and income.
TRUE or FALSE
All women in Canada gained the rights to vote, to run for office, and to be appointed to the Senate during World War I.
TRUE or FALSE
The Great Depression was so financially devastating that people began to see that poverty and unemployment were not the results of individual inadequacy or laziness, but common and insurable threats to everyone’s livelihood.
TRUE or FALSE
The Beveridge Report (Britain) and the Marsh Report (Canada), both released in 1943, established the baseline for the rapid expansion of universal social welfare.
TRUE or FALSE
The EI program has been improving because the Government of C
