Identify two health-care problems that vary by race.
What will be an ideal response?
Students can choose two of the following: Maternal mortality is three times higher among African American women than the rest of the population. The incidence of tuberculosis is three time higher among African Americans. Deaths related to diabetes occur at double the rate in African Americans.
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From the Civil War to the 1930s, the Supreme Court was primarily occupied with
A. the civil rights of former slaves. B. economic regulation by government. C. the rights of the criminally accused. D. the balance of power between states and the federal government. E. First Amendment freedoms.
The Supreme Court
A. has reduced its protection of symbolic speech dramatically, and has recently ruled against flag burning as a form of protected symbolic speech. B. ruled, during the Vietnam War, that the burning of draft registration cards was a protected form of symbolic speech. C. has generally protected symbolic speech almost as substantially as it has protected verbal speech. D. has ruled that even forms of symbolic speech considered to be dangerous to the public are protected. E. has protected symbolic speech much more substantially than it has protected verbal speech.
According to E. J. Dionne, most politicians who have won the presidency over the past quarter century did so by
a. emphasizing the concept of public service. b. running against the government in Washington. c. promising to end the spoils system. d. promising to do away with the civil service system.
If Congress adopts a policy to make cars more fuel efficient, they have adopted a __________
a. fiscal stimulus policy b. microeconomic policy c. monetary policy d. regulatory policy