What is the liberal response to the conservative argument that antipoverty programs are ineffectual?
a) Antipoverty programs have worked: poverty rates, infant mortality rates, and malnutrition rates have all gone down. b) Antipoverty programs are only ineffectual because people cheat; if the number of people who cheated was lowered, the programs would be more successful. c) Antipoverty programs will improve as a result of the 1996 welfare reform act passed by Congress. d) Antipoverty programs are not ineffectual. They are just mismanaged and overfunded.
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a. The prime minister wants to hand power to someone else in his or her own party. b. The prime minister has lost the support of many members of his or her own party. c. The prime minister expects his or her party to win a clear majority of seats in the new election. d. The prime minister hopes to strengthen the coalition by increasing his or her personal popularity.
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