Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The only credit available during the 1930s depression was generally from local grocers who would allow families to run accounts.
2. Poverty is a lack of monetary resources, which impacts all the domains of a person’s life.
3. The European Union’s definition of poverty uses a more relative measure than that of the U.S.: a ratio of median income.
4. A supplemental measure, which includes more aspects of income and deductions than the standard, is reported along with the standard measure to measure poverty in recent times.
5. Orshansky’s poverty measure continues to be used to estimate the official poverty level.


1. True
2. True
3. True
4. True
5. True

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