The New Deal and Great Society programs gave the national government increased responsibility and authority to provide programs and services to citizens. Beginning in the 1980s many of the services provided by the federal government were relinquished to the state governments. This process is known as
a. deregulation.
b. devolution.
c. privatization.
d. reinvention.
e. revolution.
ANS: B
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