Explain the two major perspectives on the causes of poverty. What implications do these perspectives have on preferred policy options?
What will be an ideal response?
One view, typically held by conservatives, is that people choose not to improve themselves and learn to accept welfare without really trying to get off of it. This viewpoint opposes granting benefits such as food or cash benefits. The other perspective, typically held by liberals, believes that poor people have had unequal opportunities and that is why they remain poor. This perspective favors welfare support programs.
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If your research design involved collecting data on several different occasions before you applied your experimental treatment, followed by a series of additional measurements, you would be using
a. a static-group comparison design. b. a one-group pretest-posttest design. c. an interrupted time series design d.. a nonequivalent control group design.
Which of the following was created in 1957 for purposes of state mandated water planning?
A) Commission of the General Land Office B) Texas Department of Water C) Texas Environmental Protection Agency D) Texas Water Development Board