While welfare caseloads have dropped dramatically since the mid-1990s, what has happened to the poverty rate in the first decade of the twenty-first century?
a. It has declined only slightly.
b. It dropped at the same pace.
c. It has remained steady.
d. It has risen dramatically.
e. It has risen to as high a level as in 1993.
ANS: E
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