City–county consolidations are efforts to provide a regional government,
a. but the primary functions of local government—public safety, public works, and health and human services—are generally kept separated along county and city lines
b. where area jurisdictions are merged into a single countywide government.
c. and counties and cities within their boundaries generally get to create the rules of the game.
d. and they were increasingly popular at the polls in the 1960s and 1970s, when twenty-three such governmentswere created.
b
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a. They are all health care programs. b. They are all designed to help keep or get people out of poverty. c. They all provide financial assistance only to senior citizens. d. They all provide food stamps to people in poverty. e. They all provide small business loans to get the poor out of poverty.
The structure of an economy based on the methods of production, patterns of property ownership, and relations between workers and owners is the
a. level of economic development. b. mode of production. c. gross domestic product. d. political economy. e. means of production.