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SOCIOLOGY MISC

Quiz 2 Chapter 2: Social Class

1)Under Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, assistance was provided in four categories: general relief, work relief, social insurance, and categorical assistance.

2. President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a War on Poverty and implemented his plan to create an acceptable level of poverty.

3. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, there is no state where a low-income worker can reasonably afford a modest one- or two- bedroom rental unit.

4. 59% of the food-insecure households said they participated during the previous month in five or more federal food and nutrition assistance programmes.

5. 15% of households in the U.S. were food insecure at least some time from 2011 to 2012.

6. The working poor are men and women who spend at least 27 weeks of the year working or looking for work but whose incomes fell below the official poverty level.

7. According to the World Bank, in 2012, because of changes in education, gender, equality, health care, environmental degradation, and hunger, there has been an increase in both the overall poverty rate and the number of poor.

8. The perception of welfare as a Black phenomenon is a serious obstacle to public support for antipoverty programmes.
9. In 2012, children’s poverty rate in the United States ranged 13.2% in North

Dakota to 34.7% in Mississippi.

10. From a conflict perspective, inequality is systematically created and maintained by those trying to preserve their advantage over the system.

11. Enacted in 1975, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) programme provides federal tax relief for low-income working families, especially those with children.

12. Families with a female householder and no spouse were less likely to be poor than families with a male householder and no spouse present.

13. Race and racism are not important in understanding public and political support for antipoverty programmes.

14. There are separate poverty guidelines for Alaska and Hawaii, compared to the

U.S. 48 Contiguous States and District of Columbia.

15. Under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, there is a limit of 36 months (three years) of assistance.