What did the 2014 Majority Staff of the House Budget Committee conclude about the War on Poverty?

What will be an ideal response?

The report found that after 50 years, there was very little change with “deep poverty being higher than at any other time in history”. The report emphasized creating work opportunities more than the development and extension of social spending as a way to address poverty. The findings linked the continuing inequality in the United States to reliance on social programs rather than work and to relate this to cultural factors as well.

Political Science

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SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Scholars using the contentious politics framework have claimed that which of the following causes can be important to producing a revolution?

A. grievances B. mobilization C. resources D. political opportunities

Political Science

Filter questions are used primarily to ______.

A. select individuals for participation in surveys B. limit certain survey questions to competent subgroups of respondents C. investigate how respondents interpret questions D. assess social and physical context of administration

Political Science