University of Maryland, Baltimore County

AGNG 200

Moody-Sasser Quiz 11 [Controversy 6. Should Age or Need Be the Basis for Entitlement?]

1)The term________________can refer to either a specific age group or a group of people born in the same year or in a certain period.

1. 1. 1. Cohort
      2. Generation
      3. Aging network
      4. Family

1. 2.                . A group of people who experienced specific historical events such as World War II or the Great Depression are referred to as a                           .
      1. Cohort
      2. Generation
      3. Aging network
      4. Family

1. 3.       . Which of the following is an issue in the concept of generational equity?
      1. Questions about the allocation of resources between older adults and children
      2. Concerns about large government
      3. Questions about the fairness of how Social Security is financed
      4. All of the above

1. 4.                . By any measure, there has been a dramatic                  in the official rate of poverty among older Americans in the last 3 decades.
      1. Rise
      2. Reduction
      3. Maintenance
      4. Lack of tracking

1. 5.      . Older people who are economically insecure and lower-middle class are sometimes called

               .

1. 1. 1. ‘Tweeners
      2. ‘Tweeters
      3. ‘Tweekers
      4. ‘Treaters

1. 6.                . A cash benefit program for the elderly poor, blind, and disabled is            .
      1. Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
      2. Social Security
      3. Pension
      4. None of the above

1. 7.                . International comparison shows that U.S. poverty rates among children are               than those of all other industrialized nations.
      1. The same as
      2. Higher
      3. Lower
      4. Less well recorded

1. 8.                . Which of the following is a possible cause of high poverty rates among children?
      1. Family structure
      2. Unemployment of their parents
      3. Declining wages of their parents
      4. All of the above

1. 9.                . Some critics believe that the declining well-being of children, coupled with the increases in economic support for older adults, have been the result of           .
      1. Progressively lazier generations
      2. People manipulating systems like Medicare and Social Security
      3. The voting power of older adults
      4. All of the above

11.10             . When the Supplemental Poverty Measure is used, the poverty rate for older adults      .

1. Stays the same
2. Increases
3. Decreases
4. Is eliminated