The U.S. Census Bureau has employed experimental measures of poverty to measure the poverty rate. These measures find that the poverty rate is ______ what has been found with standard poverty rate measures.

A. the same as
B. higher than
C. lower than
D. much more concentrated among the elderly than


Answer: B

Sociology

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a)  social control. b)  human agency. c)  cultural consumerism. d)  collective consciousness.

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Diseases that are of long duration are called ________.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Researchers contend that living together before marriage does not appear to be a substitute marriage (a long-term commitment between intimate partners that does not involve legal marriage), or a trial marriage (living together to see what marriage

would be like). If cohabitation is not seen as an alternative to being married, then what is it? What will be an ideal response?

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The American health care system has been described as:

a. curative, acute, and hospital-based. b. acute, terminal, and patient-centered. c. hospital-based, patient-centered, and achievement-oriented. d. socialist, terminal, and hospital-based. e. patient-centered, bureaucratic, and subsidized.

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