What Is the Shadow Welfare State

question 101

Multiple Choice

What is the shadow welfare state?

• A) the welfare that is distributed by local governments and special districts
• B) social benefits that are distributed by private employers who are being subsidized by the government
• C) the welfare payments that the government is committed to paying in the future
• D) private charities that have filled the gap left by reductions in government spending

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Definitions:

Distribution

Refers to the way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area.

Alternative Hypothesis

The hypothesis that proposes there is a statistically significant difference between two or more sets of data, contrasting the null hypothesis.

Region of Rejection

The range of values for which the null hypothesis is rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis in hypothesis testing.

p < .05

Indicates that the probability of the observed data occurring under the null hypothesis is less than 5%, suggesting statistical significance.