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A Social Security recipient's buying power is reduced as a result of inflation, so he or she tries to save money by buying cheaper alternatives to normal purchases. President Obama encouraged factoring this example of _____ into the cost of living adjustment.
 
  A) welfare assistance
  B) traditional CPI
  C) the Social Security Trust Fund
  D) chained CPI
  E) the poverty level

Question 2

President __________ proposed that individual workers be allowed to invest their own Social Security payroll taxes in the stock market.
 
  A) Franklin D. Roosevelt
  B) Lyndon B. Johnson
  C) Ronald Reagan
  D) Bill Clinton
  E) George W. Bush



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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

E



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