By the year 2000, the poverty rate for African Americans had:
A) risen to nearly 40 percent.
B) fallen to an all-time low of 24 percent.
C) stayed the same as 1993 levels demonstrating the negative impact of President Clinton's social policies.
D) declined to the lowest level since the Reagan administration.
Answer: B
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A) business owners. B) married men. C) members of the clergy. D) men of Japanese or German ancestry.
Israel was proclaimed a state in
a. 1900 b. 1918 c. 1945 d. 1948 e. 1967
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