Critics of the U.S. definition of poverty claim it is an inaccurate measure of the poor because:
A) it is a single number that does not capture regional differences in the cost of living.
B) the ratio of food consumption to total income is different now than when the definition of poverty was defined.
C) it fails to account accurately for expenditures other than food.
D) All of these are true.
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Q6: Median income is the:
A)level earned by the
Q7: The poverty rate is defined as:
A)the percentage
Q8: Critics of the U.S. definition of poverty
Q9: To understand how poverty, inequality, and discrimination
Q10: Since the 1950s, the U.S. poverty rate
Q12: What changes regarding the inequality between the
Q13: When the United States experiences economic growth,
Q14: Over the last 50 years, poverty has
Q15: The U.S. government began tracking poverty in
Q16: In the United States, the official poverty
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