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Question

1. Social welfare programs benefit society by ________________________________.

a. providing for public goods such as highways, protecting the environment, and public schools

b. improving the economy by providing consumers with sufficient resource to consume goods

c. all of the above

d. absorbing the social costs of a market economy, particularly through economic downturns

2. All of the following contributed to the growth of the Federal deficit during the last decade EXCEPT:

a. passage of Medicare Part D

b. a reduction in income tax rates

c. the increasing cost of Social Security

d. the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

3. The social construction of social problems and social policies serve to ________________.

a. facilitate the introduction of new ways of looking at the world

b. revise long-standing vies of poverty and inequality

c. accurately describe the history and current conditions of marginalized groups

d. reinforce prevailing customs, values, and traditions