Exam 18: Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination

The economist Gary Becker concluded that discrimination occurs because of people's:

Reform to the welfare system in the United States in 1996:

Which of the following statements about the distribution of income in the United States is true?

According to the text, it is generally agreed that in the United States since World War II, the distribution of income has:

In 2010, white female wages were 80% of white male wages.

The poverty line for a household with nine people in 2010 was:

Recent proposals to reform welfare in the United States include work provisions and time limits on benefits.

Discrimination has been a major source of higher wages for blacks and other nonwhite minorities in the United States since the 1950s.

-(Exhibit: Income Distribution in the United States) From 1968 to 2010, the distribution of income in the United States became:

If some employees have discriminatory attitudes against a group of workers, the demand for workers from that group may be lower.

In 2010, approximately 5 percent of the families headed by married couples in the United States fell below the poverty line.

Relative poverty might be defined based on the:

-(Exhibit: Income Distribution) Curve A represents:

According to consumer choice theory, poor people, from their own perspective, are better off with:

America's poverty rate is _______ than that of most _______ .

The characteristic most associated with poverty is:

The Case in Point titled "Attitudes and Inequality" suggested that:

Affirmative actions are designed to enhance minority opportunities.

Which of the following statements is true?

In 2010, approximately ________ percent of the families in the United States headed by ________ fell below the poverty line.