Exam 18: Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination

During the last two decades, the share of income going to the poor has declined in the United States.

In 2015, the poverty line for a family of four in the United States was an income of about $24,000.

Studies of income changes in the United States over time reveal that there is almost no income mobility among quintiles of the distribution of income.

Use the following to answer questions Exhibit: Income Distribution -(Exhibit: Income Distribution) Curve B indicates that:

Use the following to answer questions Exhibit: Discrimination Model -(Exhibit: Discrimination Model) If blacks and whites have the same supply curve, but employers have discriminatory attitudes that cause them to assume a black worker is less productive, the wage of whites will be _______ , the quantity of whites hired will be ________ , the wage of blacks will be _______ , and the quantity of blacks hired will be ________ .

According to the text, it is generally agreed that in the United States in the first two decades following World War II:

Which of the following demographic groups in the United States has the highest poverty rate?

If there is considerable _______ among the quintiles of the distribution of income in a country, then there would be many families moving from _______ and others moving from _______ quintiles.

Use the following to answer questions Exhibit: Discrimination -(Exhibit: Discrimination) If blacks and whites have the same supply curve S, while blacks have demand curve D and whites have demand curve D', the wage for whites will be given by:

In the United States today, poor people have much ________ incomes than _______ .

According to the text, it is generally agreed that in the United States since World War II, the distribution of income has:

If discrimination against blacks in the labor market is eliminated, then the wage paid to blacks will _______ and the number of blacks employed will _______ .

The poverty line is described by which of the following?

The percentage of the population that falls below the poverty line is called the poverty rate.

Since the late 1970s in the United States, the demand for _______ labor _______ and the demand for _______ labor _______ .

Use the following to answer questions Exhibit: Income Distribution in the United States -(Exhibit: Income Distribution in the United States) In 1968 and 2010, the lowest 40 percent of the families received _______ and _______ percent of the income, respectively.

The provision of specific goods and services to poor people is:

In the United States in the 1990s, and 2000s, the gap between the wages of college- and high-school-trained workers _______ and contributed to _______ .

In 2015, white female wages were about 80% of white male wages.

Discrimination in an economy results in the economy operating inside its production possibilities curve.