Answer the following questions regarding wealth, poverty, and inequality.

Regarding Personal Economic Factors:

Where do you stand personally in terms of your overall wealth?

What factors in your own background contributed to your current financial status and your potential future financial status?

To what extent do you place importance on your own current and future financial status? Explain.

What are the reasons for the widening gap in wealth in the United States?

To what extent do such gaps in wealth contribute to oppression, on the one hand, and privilege and power on the other? Why and how does this occur?

Can or should something be done about huge economic gaps between the wealthy and the impoverished? If so, what should be done and why?

What are the reasons for such extreme global poverty?

What can or should be done to help?

Regarding Gaps in Wealth in the United States:

What are the reasons for the widening gap in wealth in the United States?

To what extent do such gaps in wealth contribute to oppression, on the one hand, and privilege and power on the other? Why and how does this occur?

Can or should something be done about huge economic gaps between the wealthy and the impoverished? If so, what should be done and why?

Regarding Global Poverty:

What are the reasons for such extreme global poverty?

What can or should be done to help?

1. Which statement is TRUE about public and private-employee unions?

a.Only private-employee unions can call strikes, and these unions tend to contribute less for their health insurance premiums.

b.Only private-employee unions can call strikes, while public-employee unions tend to contribute less for their health insurance premiums.

c.Only public-employee unions can call strikes, and these unions tend to contribute less for their health insurance premiums.

d.Only public-employee unions can call strikes, while private-employee unions tend to contribute less for their health insurance premiums.

2. Over 90% of all families with small children are two-earner households. False/True

3.What types of industries have been outsourced from the United States because of international trade?

a.industries that require cell-phone connectivity

b.industries that require highly skilled workers

c.industries that require a large amount of labor

d.industries that require a high degree of technology

4. Factory jobs are no longer plentiful in the United States. This is due to all of these EXCEPT:

a.growth in international trade.

b.more foreign direct investment into the United States.

c.the transformation of the manufacturing process through the growth of the Internet.

d.a shift to service industries.

5. A monopsony is a labor market with one employer. False/True

QUESTION 21

1. Hegemonic stability theorists argue that in the interwar period

QUESTION 22

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   The 1944 Bretton Woods Conference resulted in the formation of the
   

QUESTION 23

1. States in the mercantilist period

QUESTION 24

1. Its advocates supported extensive economic liberalization policies such as privatization, fiscal austerity, deregulation, free trade, and reductions in government spending in order to enhance the role of the private sector in the economy.
   
   
   
   
   

QUESTION 25

1. The theorists most likely to view small states as benefiting more than large states from open regional trade agreements (RTAs) are

What are some of the differences between investing in a startup (private company) versus a public company?

6. a) Explain as an investor how you would apply the Four Factor Value Matrix by Matt Kuppers.

b) You are a startup consultant and your client is a cryptocurrency-based payment card provider. To date, the startup offers customers a payment card which enables them to buy, hold and send cryptocurrencies. The payment card is connected to a cryptocurrency wallet. They are looking to grow the customer base. What modification of the business model would allow them to grow revenue?

Statutes enacted by legislatures, whether the Congress of the United States or at a state level, often are vague. Hence, the policy mandates given to public administrators via the legislation are vague. This also shifts much of the policy making to public administrators. Explain the advantages to the public of the public administrators, rather than the elected representatives, making policy via rules and regulations.

Statutes enacted by legislatures, whether the Congress of the United States or at a state level, often are vague. Hence, the policy mandates given to public administrators via the legislation are vague. This also shifts much of the policy making to public administrators. Explain the advantages to the public of the public administrators, rather than the elected representatives, making policy via rules and regulations.

In the United​ States, employee benefits in the form of health insurance are not taxed. How does this affect the price of health insurance compared to goods that are purchased after income is​ taxed? How does the amount of health insurance consumed compare to the amount that would be consumed if the benefit was​ taxed

An increase in the number of people in the United States with health insurance would likely cause: A. the cost of health care services to increase as the incentive for health care providers to minimize costs becomes less important. B. the cost of health care services to decrease as the incentive for health care providers to minimize costs becomes less important. C. the cost of health care services to decrease as the incentive for health care providers to minimize costs becomes more important. D. the cost of health care services to increase as the incentive for health care providers to minimize costs becomes more important.