Exam 18: Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination

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

Economists define discrimination as occurring when:

Research by Rob Grunewald and Art Rolnick, cited in the Case in Point on early intervention programs suggested that governments can better promote economic development by supporting early childhood programs rather than by:

An income test devised to indicate poverty for those people whose incomes fall at the bottom quintile of the income distribution list is called an absolute income test.

The poverty rate for whites (not Hispanic) in 2015 in the United States was approximately ________ percent.

In the United States in the 1990s, and 2000s, the gap between the wages of college- and high-school-trained workers _______ and contributed to _______ .

Which of the following is (are) examples of discriminatory practices?

The percentage of the population living in households whose income falls below the poverty line is the:

In determining the poverty rate in the United States, only cash income is counted.

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

The characteristic most associated with poverty is:

In 2015, approximately ________ percent of the families in the United States headed by ________ fell below the poverty line.

Use the following to answer questions. Exhibit: Income Distribution -(Exhibit: Income Distribution) Curve B:

In 2015, approximately 5 percent of the families headed by married couple families in the United States fell below the poverty line.

Discrimination in the work place can result from prejudices by employers, other employees, or consumers.

The poverty line is described by which of the following?

In the United States over the last couple of decades, the gap between the wages of skilled and unskilled workers:

Between 1968 and 2015, income inequality in the United States:

What is a Lorenz curve? How can it be used to show the degree of inequality of income distribution? Given the data for Brazil shown, draw a Lorenz curve. Is the income distribution relatively equal or unequal? Explain how you reached your answer.

Much of the recently declining wage gap between white males and blacks and women is due to _______ blacks and women, but some of the decline is due to _______ .