What is the concern regarding the long-term viability of Social Security?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: An ideal response will:
1. Explain how Social Security is not funded as a typical pension program. Rather, current workers pay the benefits of current retirees.
2. Explain that receipts currently exceed benefits with the surplus deposited in the Social Security Trust Fund. However, the federal government has used that money (loaned money to itself) to pay for other expenses.
3. Explain that Social Security will soon start paying out more in benefits than it receives in taxes because there are fewer workers paying for an increasing number of retirees.
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What does the neorealism argue about balance of power and stability? What are the main problems with the neorealist claim about balance of power and stability?
What will be an ideal response?
Britain ruled Nigeria through local rulers and tribal chiefs in a system known as
a. divide and conquer. b. indirect rule. c. a patron-client relationship. d. a fiefdom system. e. neocolonialism.
How did the decision in Marbury vs. Madison (1803) strengthen the power of the Supreme Court?
A) It denied state courts the authority to override federal precedent B) It asserted that the Court could order the president to carry out a law C) It intervened in a conflict between the other two branches of government D) It established the Court's right to declare and act of Congress unconstitutional
As the courts and legislatures cleared the books of laws that legalized racial discrimination, affirmative action developed in the 1970s as a new tactic. What was its purpose?
a. It required that the employment process be color-blind and that race not be mentioned. b. It required that the federal government’s agencies approve all employment decisions to ensure compliance. c. It intentionally encouraged lawsuits against private companies as a way of bringing them into compliance. d. It created a remedy for discriminatory hiring practices of the past and present whereby preference, in certain circumstances, could be given to minorities. e. It created policies that made it more difficult to hire or promote a white employee.