Across
- 2. Type of taxes in which people with higher incomes pay a larger proportion of their income than people with higher incomes do
- 5. A tax charged on a unit of a good or service that is sold
- 7. When one group receives a disproportionate share of total income or wealth than others
- 11. Taking income from those with higher incomes and providing income to those with lower incomes
- 14. The situation of being below a certain level of income needed for a basic standard of living
- 15. Is a federal program that provides health coverage if you are 65 and older or have a severe disability, no matter your income
- 16. A graph that compares the cumulative income actually received to a perfectly equal distribution of income
Down
- 1. Percentage of the population living below the poverty line
- 3. Dividing a group into fifths, a method often used to look at distribution of income
- 4. A Program enacted in 1965 that provides medical insurance for low-income people, including the near-poor as well as those below the poverty line, and focusing on low-income families and the disabled
- 6. Type of taxes in which people with lower incomes pay a larger proportion of their income than people with higher incomes do
- 8. or percentage, of their incomes as people with lower incomes do
- 9. Type of taxes in which people with higher incomes pay the same
- 10. A tax in which a taxpayer is assessed the same amount regardless of circumstance
- 12. A flow of money received, often measured on a monthly or an annual basis
- 13. Antipoverty programs set up so that government benefits decline substantially as people earn more income—as a result, working provides little financial