Who is poor in America This is a hard question to answer. Despite poverty’s messiness, we’ve measured progress against it by a single statistic: the federal poverty line. In 2008, the poverty threshold was $ 21,834 for a four-member family with two children under 18. By 1his measure, we haven’t made much progress. Except for recessions, when the poverty rate can rise to 15 percent, it’s stayed in a narrow range for decades. In 2007—the peak of the last business cycle—the poverty rate was 12.5 percent; one out of eight Americans was "poor. " In 1969, another business-cycle peak, the poverty rate was 12.1 percent. But the apparent lack of progress is misleading for two reasons.
First, it ignores immigration. Many immigrants are poor and low skilled. They add to the poor. From 1989 to 2007, about three quarters of the increase in the poverty population occurred among Hispanics—mostly immigrants, their children, and grandchi
A. their living standards will have actually risen
B. they will rank themselves among the rich
C. there is no reduction in poverty
D. they will have to cut their spending
Who is poor in America This is a hard question to answer. Despite poverty’s messiness, we’ve measured progress against it by a single statistic: the federal poverty line. In 2008, the poverty threshold was $ 21,834 for a four-member family with two children under 18. By 1his measure, we haven’t made much progress. Except for recessions, when the poverty rate can rise to 15 percent, it’s stayed in a narrow range for decades. In 2007—the peak of the last business cycle—the poverty rate was 12.5 percent; one out of eight Americans was "poor. " In 1969, another business-cycle peak, the poverty rate was 12.1 percent. But the apparent lack of progress is misleading for two reasons.
First, it ignores immigration. Many immigrants are poor and low skilled. They add to the poor. From 1989 to 2007, about three quarters of the increase in the poverty population occurred among Hispanics—mostly immigrants, their children, and grandchi
A. shows that Americans are relatively rich
B. does not mean that Americans aren’t getting richer
C. means that no progress has been made for decades
D. shows that Americans are not getting richer
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goods from door to door to pay his way through school found he had only one thin
dime left, and he was hungry. He decided he would ask for a meal at the next
house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door.
Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so
she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, "How
much do I owe you" "You don’t owe me anything," she replied. He said,
"Then I thank you from my heart. ’ Years later that young woman became critically iii. The local doctors sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, he rose immediately and ’went to her room. A. he wanted to help support his family B. he needed money for school C. he had to pay back a student loan D. he did not have enough pocket money [单项选择]
There once lived a poor tailor who had a son called Aladdin, a careless, idle boy (21) would do nothing but play all day long in the streets with little idle boys like himself. This so grieved the father that (22) died; yet, in spite of his mother’s tears and prayers, Aladdin did not (23) his ways. One day, when he was playing in the streets as usual, a stranger (24) him if he was not the son of Mustapha the tailor. "I am, sir," replied Aladdin, "but he died a (25) while ago." On this the stranger, who was a (26) magician, fell on his neck and kissed him saying: "I am your uncle, and (27) you from your likeness to my brother. Go to your mother and tell her I am coming." Aladdin ran home and told his mother of his newly (28) uncle. "Indeed, child," she said, "your father had a (29) , but I always thought he was dead." However, she prepared supper, a 我来回答: 提交
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