Why are entitlements such a difficult issue for policymakers to solve?
What will be an ideal response?
Broad popular support means reforms are hard and there is a prisoner’s dilemma where neither side wants to make the first move and suffer electoral costs.
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The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) that measures the quantity and quality of foreign aid provided to poor countries ranked the United States low on providing direct foreign aid, but this result may be misleading because __________
a. the index relies on questionable indicators of development such as the extent to which a country has incorporated technology in its business enterprises b. the index judges development primarily on how well a country can provide military security for its population c. the index ignores important factors such as the degree to which rich-country trade policies encourage poor-country imports and the degree to which rich countries are open to migrants from poor countries d. the index relies on qualitative judgments to produce quantitative data, includes possibly inessential components, and may be based on a false premise
One means by which white Southerners discouraged or prevented newly enfranchised African Americans from exercising their vote after the Civil War was through the use of the ______, which required them to pay money in order to vote.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).