Congress Has Been Reluctant to Use Block Grants to Achieve

question 34

Multiple Choice

Congress has been reluctant to use block grants to achieve policy goals because ______.

• A) they allow states to pursue their own goals rather than the federal government's goals
• B) they are too expensive
• C) they are too time consuming to write
• D) state politicians dislike them as much as unfunded mandates
• E) states rarely accept them due to the restrictions written into such grants

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Definitions:

Parameter

A numerical characteristic that summarizes or describes an aspect of a population in statistics.

Exponentially Distributed

A probability distribution that characterizes the interval between occurrences in a process where events continually and independently happen at a steady average pace.

Probability Density Function

A function that describes the relative likelihood for a continuous random variable to occur at a given point along a range of possible values.

Exponentially Distributed

Describes the time between events in a Poisson process, where events occur continuously and independently at a constant average rate.