Poverty quiz

Question 1

Minimum wage is being lowered in 2015 to $7.70 an hour

Answer

true

Question 2

More  African-Americans live in poverty compared to Hispanics

Answer

true

Question 3

To fix poverty in America President Obama said "he was going to cut military spending in half and donate it to needy families in the U.S.

Answer

true

Question 4

People who are in poverty tend to live in suburbia and small towns.

Answer

true

Question 5

Unemployment is at an all time at 45% nationwide

Answer

true

Question 6

'SNAP benefits" as they are called  kept 4 million people out of poverty in 2011

Answer

true

Question 7

In 1996 Clinton-era welfare cut cash assistance to needy families.  After that parents went to work and fixed their problems.

Answer

true

Question 8

46 million Americans live in households where the government considers their income scarcely adequate.

Answer

true

Question 9

Lyndon B. Johnson "War on Poverty" has been extremely successful over the past 50 years.

Answer

true

Question 10

A fuller accounting suggests the poverty rate has dropped to 16 percent today, from 26 percent in the late 1960s, economists say.

Answer

true

Questions in this quiz (10)