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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. During June and July 2021, how many states stopped some or all of the emergency benefits provided during the COVID pandemic?
2. When did Congress pass federal legislation abolishing housing discrimination?
3. What was the top maginal tax rate in 1975?
4. What were some countries where the government automatically filed taxes, sent a form to citizens, citizens checked the form, and mailed it back in?
5. How were elderly people notified about food stamps that caused them to sign up?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were some excuses for the rising housing costs, and what did Desmond believe caused the rising housing costs?
2. What did English doctor and clergyman Joseph Townsend have to say about getting poor people to work?
3. What were some ways social scientists and policymakers attempted to move low-income families to promising neighborhoods?
4. How did rent increase from 2000 to 2021?
5. Why did Desmond believe that deeper antipoverty investments were not required?
6. How did Japan, Great Britain, Estonia, the Netherlands, and some other countries handle tax filing?
7. What challenges faced individuals who had bad credit or no credit score?
8. How would a mortgage have benefitted Lakia Higbee and why did she rent?
9. How did corporations avoid paying the taxes they owed?
10. What are some ways to be exploited?
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
Matthew Desmond was a sociologist and author. Why did he write Poverty, by America?
Essay Topic 3
Desmond believed that poverty could be affected by racial disadvantages or privileges. How was poverty unequal, and how did race affect that inequality?
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