Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The dependent deduction on tax returns was introduced at a time when politicians worried about the declining birth rate in the United States.
2. Only 10% of all married partner family groups with children under 18 years of age had a stay-at-home mother in 2013.
3. The juvenilization of poverty refers to an increase in the poverty rates for children that began in the early 1980s, whether in single- or two-parent families.
4. According to the Children’s Defense Fund (2014), over 16 million children lived below the poverty line in the United States in 2012.
1. True
2. False
3. True
4. True
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
While the stated purpose of the Truman Doctrine was to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation," in practice
A. it antagonized the Soviets to the point that it led to direct military confrontation with the Soviet Union. B. it allowed Soviet expansion as long as the United States was not directly threatened. C. it led the United States to support dictatorial regimes as long as they sided with the United States and against the Soviet Union or leftist governments. D. only those countries with militaries capable of fighting proxy wars against communist regimes were supported.
The intended goals of the feminist movement were
A) control over reproductive rights. B) gender equality. C) freedom from sexual harassment. D) equal job opportunities at equal pay rates. E) All of these
The United States-led alliance to which both Australia and New Zealand belong is
a. NATO. b. the British Commonwealth. c. ANZUS. d. ASEAN. e. the OAS.