Exam 20: Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination

Suppose a professor announces at the beginning of a course that he will give no failing grades because they are too damaging to self-esteem.How does such a policy affect equality and efficiency?

Because of the book, The Other America, Michael Harrington was important in beginning the

Actual experiments show that negative income taxes destroy work incentives.

In the United States, the incidence of poverty has declined since the 1970s.

The poverty line is meant to distinguish

Discuss the criticisms leveled against the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program.

What are the strengths and weaknesses of the negative income tax (NIT) as an alternative to traditional welfare programs?

Which of the following measures absolute poverty?

Assume that a company has several male workers who do not give their full cooperation to female supervisors making them less effective as supervisors.Economists would refer to this type of situation as ____.

One benefit of a negative income tax is that it would increase work incentives.

In a market economy, incomes would be very equal if there was no discrimination.

TANF sets a lifetime cap for benefits at 10 years.

The United States has less income inequality than most other developed countries.

The basic problem with the government setting an absolute poverty line is that it is

Economic discrimination occurs when equivalent factors of production receive different payments for equal contributions to output.

Prejudice leads, inevitably, to economic discrimination.

In 2017, about what percentage of total income was earned by the richest fifth of all U.S.households?

It has been found that

A negative income tax does not

Tax loopholes increase the progressivity of the federal income tax.