Welfare Data Show That in the United States

question 122

Multiple Choice

Welfare data show that in the United States

• A) most welfare recipients receive benefits only for a short time.
• B) welfare encourages young women to have children.
• C) children brought up on welfare tend to remain on welfare as adults.
• D) having poor parents does not increase the chances of a child's being on welfare as an adult.
• E) children of poor parents have a 50 percent chance of being middle-income adults.

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Solvency

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