Welfare State quiz

More questions about Welfare State

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1. 1 Easy

   Which welfare state tops up its budget from an oil fund?

   Answer: Norway

   Why: The fiscal rule lets the budget draw, over time, only the fund's expected real return, set at 3% a year in 2017.

2. 2 Medium

   Which of Beveridge's five giants stood for unemployment?

   Answer: Idleness

   Why: Idleness meant involuntary unemployment, not laziness, and the welfare state's answer to it was a policy of full employment.

3. 3 Hard

   What principle made workhouse life worse than the lowest-paid job?

   Answer: Less eligibility

   Why: Families were split up on arrival, with fathers, mothers and children sent to separate sections of the workhouse.

4. 4 Easy

   What does Finland's baby box double as?

   Answer: A bed

   Why: Finland first offered the box to low-income families, then in 1949 made it a benefit for every expectant mother.

5. 5 Medium

   What is Australia's universal public health insurance called?

   Answer: Medicare

   Why: Unlike US Medicare, which mainly covers people aged 65 and over, Australia's covers citizens and permanent residents of any age.

6. 6 Hard

   What law says state spending grows as nations get richer?

   Answer: Wagner's law

   Why: Engel's law also ties spending to income, but the other way: as people get richer, the share spent on food falls.