Exam 19: Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination

Use the following to answer question(s): Discrimination -(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 blacks will be given by:

Use the following to answer question(s): Income Distribution in the United States -Which of the following statements about the distribution of income in the United States is true?

The characteristic most closely associated with poverty in the United States is age.

Use the following to answer question(s): Income Distribution in the United States -The poverty rate for whites (not Hispanic) in 2015 in the United States was approximately ________ percent.

Most welfare assistance in the United States is in the form of cash payments.

Use the following to answer question(s): Income Distribution -(Exhibit: Income Distribution) Curve B indicates that:

Use the following to answer question(s): Income Distribution in the United States -Economists define discrimination as occurring when:

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

Use the following to answer question(s): Income Distribution -(Exhibit: Income Distribution) Curve B:

Use the following to answer question(s): Income Distribution in the United States -(Exhibit: Income Distribution in the United States) Which of the following statements is true?

Use the following to answer question(s): Income Distribution in the United States -(Exhibit: Income Distribution in the United States) Which of the following statements is true?

Use the following to answer question(s): Income Distribution -(Exhibit: Income Distribution) Curve A represents:

The distribution of income in the United States has become more equal since 1967.

Use the following to answer question(s): Income Distribution in the United States -The percentage of the population that falls below the poverty line is called the:

In 2015, only about 30 percent of the people below the poverty line in the United States received some form of assistance.

Use the following to answer question(s): Income Distribution in the United States -The percentage of the population living in households whose income falls below the poverty line is the:

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

Use the following to answer question(s): Income Distribution in the United States -In 2015, approximately _______ percent of people below the poverty line received some form of cash assistance.

Use the following to answer question(s): Income Distribution in the United States -The text concludes that poor people, from their own perspective, would be better off with _______ than with _______ .

In some ways, poverty is an absolute concept, but more generally it is a relative one.