During World War II, the U.S. economy suffered. With imposed price and wage controls, employers were often not able to offer raises to employees who worked long hours at hard, sometimes hazardous, jobs. Instead, many companies began to offer free health care as a benefit. This is often cited as the origin of
a.) safety monitoring in the workplace.
b.) the employer-based health care system.
c.) laws preventing the government from imposing price controls.
d.) tax laws allowing individuals to deduct benefits from their taxes.
Ans: b.) the employer-based health care system.
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a. Ethnic cleansing b. Assimilation c. Pluralism d. Discrimination
The proportion of one-child families in America appears to be growing due to at least three factors. Which of the following is NOT one of these?
a. the high cost of rearing a child through college b. women's increasing career opportunities and aspirations c. the choice to have just one child becomes easier to make as more couples do so d. negative personal experiences with siblings from childhood
Which one of the following designs is the most likely to be used for descriptive purposes?
a. cross-sectional b. trend c. cohort d. panel e. group
Which of the following is an argument stated by the functionalist theorists of the conjugal family system?
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