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10. From the Great Depression until 1996, the United States’ most visible anti-poverty program was:

a. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

b. Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)

c. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)

d. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

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a. illegal immigration responds to the forces of the free market.

b. legal immigration is determined by a bureaucratic process which does not necessarily respond quickly to market forces.

c. spouses and children of skilled legal immigrants (who come with them) may not have marketable skills - so the case for legal immigration is weakened.

d. all of the above.

2. Gordon Hanson calculates gain/loss due to Mexican migration to the United States. He shows that because of Mexican migration to the United States:

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b. Original American workers lose 1% of US GDP.

c. World income goes up by about 1.2% of US GDP.

d. Mexican wages fall by 0.03% of US GDP.

3. The Bracero Program refers to a temporary work visa program which is no longer in place. Under the program a large number of mostly Mexican farm workers could come and work in the Unirted States.

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b. Governor Rick Perry of Texas.

c. Cesar Chavez.

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b. Mexican immigrants who come from Mexican villages take longer to assimilate, but the educated Mexican immigrants assimilate readily.

c. Latinos are quite adept at climbing out of poverty. Sixty-eight percent of those who have been in this country 30 years, own their own homes.

d. A large number of Mexican-Americans join the US Army.

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e. None of the above.

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