The types of jobs available to American workers have changed in the past quarter century. Which of the following best describes the change?
a. The jobs that were removed from the labor market paid better than the jobs that have been created.
b. The jobs that were removed from the labor market paid less than the jobs that have been created.
c. The jobs that are being created pay almost the same as the jobs that were removed from the labor market so workers have not been disadvantaged.
d. The jobs that are being created pay the same as the jobs that were removed from the labor market but require more skills so fewer people qualify for them and unskilled workers are disadvantaged.
Question 2
The households in Puritan New England were large because they
a. often consisted of at least three generations with the majority of children living in the same household as parents and grandparents, sometimes great-grandparents.
b. included parents, children, extended kin such as unmarried aunts, and other unrelated people such as boarders, apprentices and/or servants.
c. included two or three nuclear families, most often the families of two or three brothers along with their parents.
