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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the deep poverty line in 2020 for a family of four?
2. During Ronald Reagan's presidency, by what percent did the aid reserved for American who fell below a certain income level increase?
3. What college did Desmond attend?
4. How long had Matthew Desmond research and reported on poverty before writing Poverty, By America?
5. How many premature deaths did a study find could have been prevented in New York City from 2008 to 2012 if the city's minimum wage had been $15 an hour?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did many people applying for Supplement Security Income (SSI) hire a lawyer?
2. When Desmond went to college, how was his life different from the lives of many of his classmates?
3. Why did Desmond believe poverty was physical pain?
4. How did Mississippi use TANF funds?
5. What are independent contractors and how did they affect wages and benefits?
6. Why did it seem unimaginable that the U.S. had made so little progress in poverty reduction?
7. Why did some of the government aid for the poor never reach them?
8. Why did Desmond write Poverty, By America?
9. Why was Crystal Mayberry born prematurely?
10. What is the Official Poverty Measure?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Desmond believed everyone should be a poverty abolitionist. What was a poverty abolitionist, and what role might they play in improving the lives of the poor?
Essay Topic 2
In 1982, George Stigler received the Nobel Prize for his contributions to studies indicating that raising wages would increase unemployment. When were Stigler’s theories tested? What did studies show about the effect of raising wages and how unemployment was affected?
Essay Topic 3
Idioms are a type of figurative language. How were idioms used in Poverty, by America, and how did the affect the tone of the book?
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