Exam 18: Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination

Economists define discrimination as occurring when:

A factor that has been associated with the increase in income inequality in the United States is the:

Changes in the distribution of income in the United States over the past 40 years have brought to the forefront the issue of:

Compare and contrast the issues involved in making a policy choice between the use of cash versus noncash assistance to alleviate poverty.

The distribution of income in the United States has become more equal since 1968.

-(Exhibit: Discrimination Model) If blacks and white have the same supply curve, but employers have discriminatory attitudes that cause them to assume a black worker is less productive, then the demand curve for blacks will be _______ and the wage for blacks will be _______ .

Which of the following statements is true?

America's poverty rate is lower than that of most industrialized nations.

-(Exhibit: Discrimination Model) If blacks and whites have the same supply curve, but employers have discriminatory attitudes that cause them to assume a black worker is less productive, the wage of whites will be _______ , the wage of blacks will be _______ , and the quantity hired of whites will be _______ .

The poverty rate for whites (not Hispanic) in 2010 in the United States was approximately ________ percent.

When economists speak of the lowest 20 percent or the middle 20 percent of the families receiving a certain percentage of income, they are speaking of:

-(Exhibit: Discrimination) If blacks and whites have the same supply curve S, while blacks have demand curve D and whites have demand curve D', employment for whites will be given by:

In determining the official poverty rate in the United States:

The poverty rate for Hispanics of any race in the United States in 2010 was about _______ percent.

Although poor people receive more cash assistance than noncash assistance, noncash assistance would tend to make them better off.

Discuss in some detail the factors that have contributed to the growing inequality in incomes in the United States in the past two decades.

Poverty can be defined either in absolute terms or in relative terms.

In general, cash assistance is _______ noncash assistance in the welfare and poverty alleviation programs in the United States.

The primary source of cash payments to the poor in the United States is Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, the gap between the wages of skilled workers and unskilled workers in the United States decreased.