Current income maintenance programs

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


Answer: C

Economics

You might also like to view...

An adverse oil-price shock reduces labor demand. What happens to current employment and the real wage rate?

A) Both employment and the real wage rate would increase. B) Both employment and the real wage rate would decrease. C) Employment would increase and the real wage would decrease. D) Employment would decrease and the real wage would increase.

Economics

When a country continually adds more capital to its existing stock productivity will:

A. increase at a decreasing rate. B. increase at an increasing rate. C. decrease at a decreasing rate. D. decrease at an increasing rate.

Economics

Who is more likely to drive carelessly, Camila in her 1980 Ford with bad brakes or Samantha, who has a 2005 BMW with all the most recent safety options?

Economics

The role of international ________ is to direct one nation's savings into another nation's investments.

A. merchandise trade flows B. unilateral transfers C. services flows D. capital flows

Economics