Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The most publicly visible consequence of poverty is homelessness.
2. Authority refers to having some status or quality that compels others to follow one’s directives.
3. Being poor affects one’s physical, emotional, and intellectual well-being.
4. Caste systems can no longer be found in any society.
5. Gans enumerates the functions poverty serves in the United States.


1. True
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. True

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