1. Compared to other countries of comparable wealth, the United States has:
A. similar levels of poverty
B. unusually high poverty rates
C. low levels of poverty only when relative measures of poverty are used
D. relatively low levels of poverty
2. Much of the rise in income inequality in the past 20 years in the United States comes from:
A. declining government controls on wage supports.
B. the use of median income levels instead of mean income levels
C. a predictable rising gap between the incomes of highly educated and less well educated workers
D. a rising gap among the incomes of highly educated workers
3. In the United States and other wealthy countries, a large part of the welfare state is devoted to payments for:
A. Temporary Aid to Needy Families
B. health care
C. unemployment insurance
D. food stamps