Exam 10: Poverty: National and International Issues

People who live in areas with the greatest gap between the rich and the poor are much more likely to rate their own health as poor or fair than people who live in areas where income is more equitably distributed.

Which of the following is a major criticism of the market basket measure of poverty?

Most welfare parents are teenagers.

What is corporate welfare?

In Canada, which of the following groups is most likely to live as lone parents?

Homelessness is a growing problem in Canada. It is estimated that as many as one million Canadians are homeless.

Which of the following terms refers to the lack of basic necessities of life, such as food, clean water, and housing?

In Canada, poverty is much more prevalent among female-headed single-parent households than among other types of family structures.

The structural-functionalist view of poverty suggests that a certain amount of poverty has positive functions for society.

If you are living on social assistance, you are probably doing which of the following?

What does the "feminization of poverty" mean?

What does "wealthfare" refer to? What policies and laws would illustrate this concept?

Which of the following is the World Health Organization (WHO) measurement of poverty primarily based on?

In general, the higher a person's level of educational attainment, the less likely that person is to be poor.

What is the Human Poverty Index and what does it measure?

Identify at least four myths and realities about welfare assistance and welfare recipients in Canada.

Bob has a minimum wage job. He is likely to belong to which of the following groups?

A Canadian living below the standard of other Canadians is, by definition, living in absolute poverty.

Canada's richest person is Kenneth R. Thomson.

The Global Poverty Report (2000) found that globally, the proportion of people living on less than $1 a day increased between 1987 and 1998.