Which of the following is true of Social Security over time?
a. Both the number of recipients of Social Security and the number of contributing workers per recipient have increased.
b. Recipients of Social Security have increased and the number of contributing workers per recipient has declined.
c. Recipients of Social Security have decreased and the number of contributing workers per recipient has increased.
d. Both the number of recipients of Social Security and the number of contributing workers per recipient have decreased.
Question -2-According to the text and the feature box Who's Getting What? Who Are the Poor? which of the following household characteristics has a higher frequency of poverty and welfare dependency?
a. male-headed households with no wife present
b. female-headed households with no husband present
c. households headed by both a husband and a wife
d. same-sex households
Question -3-Obamacare has no provisions concerning tort reform. Tort reform refers to managing the litigation of what?
a. insurance co-payments
b. medical malpractice
c. birth control
d. retirement benefits
Question -4-If an individual receives government benefits due to his or her level of income, they are considered to be what?
a. transfer payments
b. a pension
c. means-tested spending
d. redistributed income
Question -5-In 1970, only 11 percent of births were to unmarried women; by 2011, this figure had increased to what percentage of all births?
a. 18
b. 23
c. 34
d. 41
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