Current Income Maintenance Programs

question 67

Multiple Choice

Current income maintenance programs

• A) often provide benefits to people who are working and earning substantially more than the poverty level.
• B) reduce the incentive of recipients to work.
• C) have safeguards to ensure that recipients work whenever physically able.
• D) fail to make the income distribution more equal.

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