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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. Where did Facebook log its $15 billion in profit?

2. In 2020, how much did Americans spend on their pets?

3. When did John Kenneth Galbraith write his book, The Affluent Society?

4. In studies conducted in the 1980s and 1990s, within what amount of time did young mothers on welfare quit relying on it?

5. What annual income would the average payday loan customer have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Desmond write that middle-class families were not carrying the poor on their backs?

2. How did Japan, Great Britain, Estonia, the Netherlands, and some other countries handle tax filing?

3. What did English doctor and clergyman Joseph Townsend have to say about getting poor people to work?

4. How did many white families respond to court-ordered desegration?

5. What was the problem with private fortunes outpacing investments in public services?

6. How would a mortgage have benefitted Lakia Higbee and why did she rent?

7. What challenges did Blacks face with banking?

8. What were some ways social scientists and policymakers attempted to move low-income families to promising neighborhoods?

9. What did statistics show about the tax rate for all Americans?

10. In what way were individuals considered to be above the poverty line dependent upon the government?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

In the book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, Suzanne Mettler reported that 96% of American adults relied on a major government program in their lifetime. The average rich and middle-class family drew on the same number of government benefits as the average poor family. How were Americans at all income levels recipients of government welfare?

Essay Topic 3

Matthew Desmond was a sociologist and author. Why did he write Poverty, by America?

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