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

1. Hydraulic fracturing, the technology used to extract natural gas, is also known as fracking.
2. The AARP has led the charge to maintain Social Security in its present form.
3. Studies of families that have left welfare have discovered that most of their heads of households had been unemployed in the previous month.
4. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program helps poor people to purchase food.
5. Members of Congress would face little opposition in deleting the mortgage interest income tax deduction from the tax code.


1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
5. FALSE

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