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Diane

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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



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: b

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Answer: b





 

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