Exam 10: Poverty

A policy maker wants to recalculate poverty based on a set percentage of the median income for each metropolitan area in the United States instead of a national average.This is an example of ________ poverty.

Mollie Orshansky used the U.S.Department of Agriculture's recommendations for the minimum amount of healthy food,estimated the cost for a variety of family types,and multiplied this figure by a factor of three to measure:

The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act was also referred to as the:

What percentage of American employees work for an employer that does not offer a traditional pension or retirement plan?

Explain the official poverty line of the United States,which was created by Mollie Orshansky.What is one reason this is a good way to measure poverty? What is one of its important limitations?

U.S.Senator Thompson proposes an "incentivized IRA" bill that would encourage savings among people who do not have an employer-sponsored retirement plan.One key incentive is:

Explain the culture of poverty thesis.How well does it explain the persistence of poverty in the United States? Use evidence and examples to support your claim.

Recent U.S.Census data show that some U.S.citizens have very high incomes while others do not.This data predicts that of every hundred children,________ live(s)in a household with an income below the poverty line.

Matthew Desmond predicts that increasing ________ and the cascading challenges surrounding it will be a major problem for the poor today and in the near future.

Cho is working on poverty reduction in a Philadelphia public housing development.In the analysis he writes after the project,he uses Mario Luis Small's idea of "culture as frames" instead of Oscar Lewis's "culture of poverty" because the "culture of poverty" thesis:

How has the history of feudalism actually reduced the level of inequality in many modern European nations?

One of the richest men in America,Tom Monaghan,the founder of Domino's Pizza,thought being poor was "one of the most exciting things in the world" because:

If Country A has a Gini coefficient of .37 and Country B has a Gini coefficient of .49,which country has more inequality?

One of the results of the negative income tax experiment was that increasing numbers of women left their marriages.This was because:

Consider this chapter's paradox: Sometimes attempts to help the poor create perverse incentives that induce more poverty in the long run.What are perverse incentives? Offer an example that illustrates the meaning.Describe a governmental policy or program that uses a better model,one that avoids perverse incentives.

What is the key that government could use to get low-income earners to commit to saving?

James Rosenbaum found that people who moved out of the ghetto and into low-poverty areas:

A higher Gini coefficient score means:

Susan Mayer,author of What Money Can't Buy: Family Income and Children's Life Chances,found in her study:

Some policy experts believe that welfare creates more problems than it solves because it discourages people from finding work.This is also known as: