Multiple choice

Question 1  

Which goes exclusively to the poor? 

A. Medicaid 

B. Medicare 

C. Social Security 

D. Unemployment insurance benefits 

Question 2  

If the value of non-cash assistance to the poor were included in their income, the: 

A. official number of persons classified as poor would be higher. 

B. official number of persons classified as poor would be lower. 

C. poverty income threshold would decrease. 

D. poverty income threshold would increase. 

Question 3  

During the decade of the 1980s our Lorenz curve: 

A. moved inward, toward the line of perfect equality. 

B. moved outward, away from the line of perfect equality. 

C. stayed about the same distance from the line of perfect equality. 

D. crossed the line of perfect equality.

Question 4  

According to official statistics in the United States, a person is classified as poor: 

A. if the person's money income is below the poverty income threshold. 

B. only if the person's money income is below the poverty income threshold AND the person is not working. 

C. only if the person's money income is below the poverty income threshold AND the person is homeless. 

D. if the person's money income and the value of non-cash transfers is below the poverty income threshold.