Consider the cases of two single mothers each with dependent children and in poverty. One is a single mother because her husband died. The second is a single mother because she is divorced
How does the United States welfare system handle these two cases?
a. Both women receive entitlement social security benefits.
b. Both women receive means-tested Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF).
c. The widowed mother receives entitlement social security benefits. The divorced mother receives means-tested Temporary Assistance to Needy Families.
d. The divorced mother receives entitlement social security benefits. The widowed mother receives means-tested Temporary Assistance to Needy Families.
c
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a. true b. false
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a. Marxist perspective b. neoclassical economic approach c. demographic transition d. split-labor-market theory
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