Which of the following statements is true of affirmative action?
A) It involves offering special admission considerations to members of minority groups.
B) It is the deliberate and public act of refusing to obey laws thought to be unjust.
C) Its primarily goal is to eliminate discrimination against people who have no minority status.
D) It is a standard under which a law or action must be necessary to promote a compelling state interest.
E) It was first developed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
A
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Which statement explains why taxes in Germany are considered less progressive than in the United States?
a. Germany's taxes focus more on wealth than consumption, so they have a proportionally lower impact on the poor. b. Germany's taxes focus more on consumption than income, so they have a proportionally higher impact on the poor. c. Germany's taxes focus more on income than real estate, so they have a proportionally higher impact on renters than homeowners. d. Germany's taxes focus more on real estate than consumption, so they have a proportionally higher impact on non-productive sectors of the economy.
The main difference between a dependent variable and an
independent variable is that: a. the dependent variable comes first in a hypothesis. b. the independent variable comes last in a hypothesis. c. the dependent variable is what a researcher is trying to explain. d. the independent variable is what a researcher is trying to explain.