Exam 2: Quiz Week 8

The definition of relative poverty takes into account which important factor when determining poverty based on a percentage of median income?

Income-based measurements are deceptive because they hide the real influence of:

James Rosenbaum (2000) found that the people most likely to benefit from being moved from low-income, ghetto neighborhoods were the:

Your text mentions outcomes that people believe stem from receiving welfare. Which of the following is NOT a result mentioned in your text?

According to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, what is the root cause of African Americans' economic problems?

According to the underclass thesis, the poor are:

One of the explanations of continued racism in America is:

What do policy experts mean by the terms perverse incentives and unintended consequences?

William Julius Wilson believed that there were factors other than welfare that led to a lack of inner-city job opportunities. Which of the following is NOT one of the factors?

According to your text, what drives American poverty rates?

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:

A lot of people who are eligible for food stamps in the United States don't apply for them. Why?

A study of Cherokee children whose income greatly increased due to legalized gambling on reservations found that:

What method is usually used to evaluate poverty?

What population was Oscar Lewis studying when he coined the term "culture of poverty"?

Which of the following is a practice that supports the culture of poverty argument?

Theorists who believe poverty is relational measure poverty by determining:

Attempts at establishing an absolute poverty measure can be traced to:

Gated communities are examples of which factor that is mixing with wealth inequality to increase the gap between the rich and the poor?

What term do economists use to describe the relative value of present consumption versus future savings?