Incentive programs in Italy and other European countries designed to encourage fertility include:
a. guaranteed higher salary for parents.
b. cash assistance that pays all the costs of childrearing up age 3.
c. housing subsidies for having more children.
d. tuition reimbursement for private school.
Question 2
Even though Italy has been experiencing a labor shortage, it has recently clamped down on immigration. Why?
a. They fear their cultures will be diluted or changed.
b. They fear of terrorists have been entering the country.
c. Immigrants were having too many children.
d. Foreign workers were taking all of the good jobs.
Invasive species in Canada include (a) zebra mussels, Dreissena polymorpha, (b) sea lamprey, Petromy
In 2008, the U.S. economy suffered a gaping wound as several trillion dollars were ripped out of it.
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Regional differences affect soil fertility