A Disadvantage Associated with In-Kind Transfers to Reduce Poverty Is

question 133

Multiple Choice

A disadvantage associated with in-kind transfers to reduce poverty is that they

• A) are more expensive than a negative income tax.
• B) are inefficient because they do not allow poor families to make purchases based on their preferences.
• C) focus on children and the disabled while neglecting the working poor.
• D) may benefit the teenage children of families who are not poor.

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Definitions:

Fictive Kin

People who become accepted as part of a family who have no genetic or legal relationship to that family.

Kinkeeper

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Middle-aged Mother

A woman in the middle adulthood stage of life, typically considered to be between the ages of 40 and 60, who has children.

Nonbiological Parenting

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