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pepyto

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Overall, the result of the 1996 federal welfare reform has been
 
  a. to increase in the number of people receiving welfare assistance.
  b. to end of the policy of providing cash assistance to any poor people.
  c. to bring about a steady decrease in the poverty rate.
  d. to decrease the number of people receiving welfare but with little change to the number of poor people.

Question 2

Anthropologist Oscar Lewis referred to cultural patterns that make poverty a way of life as
 
  a. the bell curve thesis.
  b. the culture of poverty.
  c. meritocracy.
  d. social disorganization.



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Answer to Question 1

(Answer: d)

Answer to Question 2

(Answer: b)



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