To What Does the Text Attribute the Declining Poverty Rate

question 29

Multiple Choice

To what does the text attribute the declining poverty rate among the elderly?

• A) the feminization of poverty
• B) progressive taxation
• C) Social Security
• D) supply-side economics

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