Deck 16: A Piece of the Pie Stanley Lieberson

Question 1

Workers in the informal services sector are eligible for workers' compensation and unemployment benefits.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

More U.S. immigrants come from Canada than from China.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

What percentage of the U.S. population was foreign born in 2005?

A) 40
B) 25
C) 10
D) 5

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Immigrants, both legal and illegal, pay the same taxes that citizens pay.

Question 5

What would you say to critics of immigration who claim that immigrants are a drain on the economy? In what ways to immigrants benefit the U.S. economy? Use evidence from the reading to support your answer.

Question 6

Which of the following types of taxes are paid by immigrants, whether legal or illegal?

A) sales taxes
B) real estate taxes if they rent or own a home)
C) gasoline taxes
D) all of the above

Question 7

Discuss the similarities between slaveholders and businesses that outsource production, according to Chomsky.

Question 8

The largest source of immigrants to the U.S. come from which country?

A) China
B) Mexico
C) Vietnam
D) Canada

Question 9

Which of the following best describes "nativism"?

A) racism directed at native-born individuals
B) anti-Native Americanism
C) anti-immigrant racism
D) the fear that immigrants will fail to assimilate

Question 10

Undocumented immigrants who work in the formal economy with false Social Security numbers have access to the benefits they are paying for, including Social Security and unemployment.

Question 11

Explain how U.S. immigration policies service to "guarantee the existence of a permanent underclass", according to Chomsky .

Question 12

Approximately 20 percent of the U.S. population was foreign born in 2005.

Question 13

Workers in the informal service sector have access to which of the following worker protections?

A) minimum wage
B) health and safety protections
C) unemployment insurance
D) workers' compensation
E) none of the above