A number of factors have contributed to the recent rise in the average retirement age. Identify at least three
What will be an ideal response?
(1) Changes to Social Security have provided incentives to delay retirement; (2) Improved health and longevity among seniors; (3) New pension types have removed incentives to retire early; (4) The increase of information-based careers has created jobs than place less strain on aging bodies. (5) Rising health care costs and the decline of employer-provided retiree insurance force many to delay retirement until they qualify for Medicare; (6) With both men and women working, husbands and wives have to wait to coordinate their retirement; (7) Economic losses as a result of the recession of the 2000s forced many older Americans to delay retirement.
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b. neglect. c. psychological abuse. d. financial abuse.
Evidence proves that capital punishment deters crime
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Anna works as a police officer. Her friends started asking her to dismiss parking tickets as a favor. Eventually Anna began to dismiss tickets given to her friends and began to ticket people in retaliation for wrongs. Anna was exhibiting ______.
A. rational choice B. a pluralist model C. a functionalist model D. the iron law of oligarchy
Which of the following is a characteristic of surveys?
A. is limited to in-person interviews B. can consist of open-ended or closed-ended questions C. must include every member of the population of interest to be accurate D. is conducted on a limited number of people