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Question 1.
Social Security benefits are paid to all eligible retirees, regardless of whatever other income they may receive.


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Question 2.
Cash aid under welfare is now a state level program rather than a federal entitlement.

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Question 3.
The United States spends less of its resources on health care than other advanced democracies.


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Question 4.
In the U.S. today, about 85% of the population is covered by government or private health insurance.

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Question 5.
Americans, on average, are healthier than citizens in other advanced democracies.


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Question 6.
Most poverty is not long term.


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Question 7.
Transfer payments are direct payments by governments to individuals as part of a social welfare program.


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Question 8.
Rural areas in the U.S. are the principal location for poverty and homelessness.


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Question 9.
The birthrate among teenage mothers has declined in recent years.

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Question 10.
Poverty is twice as likely among female-headed households in America.

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