Nickel and Dimed: on (Not) Getting by in America BARBARA

question 52

Multiple Choice

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America BARBARA EHRENREICH
-Ehrenreich concludes from her study that:

• A) the low-wage economy perpetuates poverty
• B) President Clinton's 1996 welfare reform was a necessary and humane solution to welfare dependency and fraud
• C) the minimum wage should be eliminated in order to let market forces, not government, determine how much people should be paid
• D) there should be more childcare help for low-wage mothers with young children
• E) most people can emerge from poverty ("free themselves of welfare") by working hard
• 24) Manifesto of the Communist Party KARL MARX and FRIEDRICH ENGELS

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