The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 33

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"[But] somewhere between 40,000,000 and 50,000,000 citizens of [the United States]… [are] poor… It is a blow to reform and the political hopes of the poor that the middle class no longer understands that poverty exists… What shall we tell the American poor?...Shall we say to them that they are better off than the Indian poor? That is one answer,but it is heartless…The means are at hand to fulfill the age-old dream: poverty can now be abolished."
Michael Harrington,The Other America,1962
-What was the most significant response of the United States' government to the sentiments expressed in the passage?

• A) The expansion of the role of the Supreme Court
• B) The protection of the private sector
• C) The enactment of the Great Society
• D) The passage of new immigration laws

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Definitions:

Political Philosophy

A field of study that explores fundamental questions about the state, government, politics, liberty, justice, and the enforcement of a legal code by authority.

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Negative Income Tax

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