Current income maintenance programs
A) often provide benefits to people who are working and earning substantially more than the poverty level.
B) reduce the incentive of recipients to work.
C) have safeguards to ensure that recipients work whenever physically able.
D) fail to make the income distribution more equal.
Answer: B
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