The _____, Which Is Based on the Minimal Amount of Money

question 8

Multiple Choice

The _____, which is based on the minimal amount of money required for a subsistence level of life, was first set by the Social Security Administration in the 1960s.

• A) supplemental poverty level
• B) official poverty line
• C) intergenerational mobility standard
• D) Giving Pledge

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Definitions:

Unconstitutional

describes actions, laws, or policies that violate the constitution or are not permissible under the constitution's framework.

Separate-but-equal Doctrine

A legal principle that justified racial segregation, claiming that separate facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional if they were equal in quality; declared unconstitutional by Brown v. Board of Education (1954).

Equal Protection Clause

A provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibiting states from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Emancipation Proclamation

An executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that declared the freedom of all slaves in Confederate-held territory during the American Civil War.