What Was the Eisenhower Administration's Approach to Social Welfare Programs

question 34

Multiple Choice

What was the Eisenhower administration's approach to social welfare programs?

• A) It rolled back federal expenditures on social welfare programs.
• B) It quietly killed social welfare programs that benefited the poor.
• C) It allowed the welfare state to grow and the federal government to take on new projects.
• D) It turned over most social welfare programs to the states with the promise of matching federal funds.

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Care Ethics

A normative ethical theory that emphasizes interpersonal relationships and care or benevolence as a virtue in moral decision-making.

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A system or code of conduct and principles that guides individual or societal judgments about what is right and wrong, good and bad.

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The belief that morality is not universal and that ethical truths depend on the cultural, social, or individual context.

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