During the 1980s and 1990s, some young professionals moved back into cities, renovating cheap houses and raising the property values so much that poor and even middle class people could no longer afford to live there, in a process called
A) Urbanization
B) Re-urbanization
C) Gentrification
D) White flight
Answer: C
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The working poor typically receive health benefits through their employers
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Demand side theorists argue that women have increasingly entered the labor force because
a. jobs identified as women's work, like waitressing and secretarial work, have increased. b. fewer children means women's labor is less needed at home. c. changes in health care and nutrition have increased women's life span. d. automation has made clothing production in factories cheaper than home sewing thus eliminating one of the tasks of housewives earlier in the century.
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A.) universal health care B.) socialized medicine C.) insurance exchanges D.) HMOs