Approximately what percentage of wealth is owned by the top 20 percent of American households?

A. 30 percent
B. 10 percent
C. 90 percent
D. 60 percent


Answer: C

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The term slum refers to ______.

a. an area’s informal settlements b. an area’s outskirts or “buildup” c. an area home to only the city’s poorest residents d. an area with no basic services or infrastructure

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Many people are now filling out their own tax forms and printing out their own postage stamps at home. The people who are doing so are referred to as ________________.

a. consumers b. producers c. prosumers d. orientators

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Sociological studies of patterns of family violence have found that

A. violence in lesbian relationships is as common as in heterosexual relationships. B. women’s relative powerlessness in the family is at the root of high rates of violence against women. C. most battered women do not leave, even briefly, since they are typically dependent on their batterer. D. about 66 percent of women will be raped, physically assaulted, or stalked by an intimate partner in their lifetime.

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