Chapter 30

Question 1

Traditionally blacks have earned about _____%

Answer 1

C. 60

Question 2

Women working full time earn about ______%of what men working full time earn.

Answer 2

C. 75

Question 3

Each of the following has contributed to the growing number of homeless people except

Answer 3

A. the rising crime rate

Question 4

About 1 out of every _____ black American is poor.

Answer 4

C. 4

Question 5

The poverty line is set

Answer 5

A. by the US Department of Commerce (based on the USDA food budgets).

Question 6

Which statement about public assistant is false?

Answer 6

B. It has failed completely.

Question 7

A family of four with one wage earner who earns the minimum hoursly wage would be

Answer 7

A. well below the poverty line

Question 8

Which statement is true?
A. There is at least a dozen different theories of poverty.
B. The liberals and conservatives are in basic agreemenet about the cause of poverty.
C. The liverals and the conservatives are in basic agreement about how to solve the poverty problem.
D. None of the statements are true.

Answer 8

A. There is at least a dozen different theories of poverty.

Question 9

Charles Murray believed that the antipoverty programs of the 1960’s and 1970’s

Answer 9

D. caused more proverty

Question 10

Which statement is true about who has the most poverty?

Answer 10

B. Blacks have a poverty rate of about three times of the whites.

Question 11

The poverty line in 2007 for a family of four was slightly more than $_____.

Answer 11

C. $20,650

Question 12

The lowest the poverty rate has been during the last 40 years was in

Answer 12

C. 1973

Question 13

Between 1960 and 1973 the poverty rate_____;between 1973 and 1983 the poverty rate_____.

Answer 13

D. fell; rose

Question 14

William Gates and Warren Buffet, each has a person fortune worth more than

Answer 14

C. $50 billion

Question 15

Which goes exclusively to the poor?

Answer 15

A. Medicaid

Question 16

Which does not go exclusively to the poor?

Answer 16

C. Unemployment insurance benefits

Question 17

Conservatives and liberals ___ on the cuases of poverty and ____ on how to solve the poverty problem.

Answer 17

D. disagree; disagree

Question 18

The conservative theory of poverty blames ______ for welfare dependency.

Answer 18

C. both the poor and the government

Question 19

Which statement is true about homelessness?

Answer 19

A. There is no one single cuase of homelessness

Question 20

The Lorenz curve shows the distribution of

Answer 20

B. income

Question 21

In which of the following groups of people in the U.S. would the incidence of poverty be the greatest?

Answer 21

A. Black familes with a female head

Question 22

Because the value of non-cash benefits to the poor is not counted when calculating the official poverty rate in the U. S., the official statistics

Answer 22

D. overestimate the poverty rate

Question 23

What fraction of the world’s population lives on no more than $2 a day?

Answer 23

C. 1/2

Question 24

Since 1994 the number of people on the welfare rolls has

Answer 24

E. fallen substantially

Question 25

The person most closely associated with a conservation theory if poverty is

Answer 25

A. Charles Murray