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

1. Since the 1990s, large numbers of people who had received welfare assistance such as AFDC have moved into the workforce. T
2. Once someone gets a job, they rarely remain below or near the poverty level. F
3. One of the creations of the Roosevelt New Deal of the 1930s was Social Security. T
4. Robert Kennedy read Galbraith’s The Affluent Society and decided that there was no longer a poverty problem in the United States. F
5. President Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty. T


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

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