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Gruber Chapter 10: State and Local Government Expenditures
1. Which of the following is NOT true about the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) program?
A) NCLB addressed the substandard educational opportunities for poor and minority children by requiring standardized testing.
B) The legislation was first introduced by President George W. Bush in 2002.
C) NCLB allowed teachers to teach the subject rather than teach to the tests.
D) NCLB represented the greatest expansion of federal power over schools in half a century.
2. The key questions addressed in this chapter are:
I. How does the provision of private goods at the local level impact their optimality?
II. How should different types of spending be shared between different levels of government?
III. What are the impacts of government grants designed to share spending across levels of government?
A) I only
B) I and II only
C) II and III only
D) I and III only
3. Optimal fiscal federalism is the question of:
A) which states perform efficiently and which do not.
B) how much interstate redistribution of wealth by the federal government is appropriate.
C) how much tax revenue should be collected by the federal government and allocated to the state governments.
D) which activities should take place at which level of government.
4. The share of spending by the federal government was _____ of all government spending in 1902 and ______ significantly over the next 50 years.
A) 34%; increased
B) 34%; decreased
C) 66%; increased
D) 66%; decreased
5. Which of the following is NOT a fundamental reason for the increase in the share of federal government spending in total government spending?
A) the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which allowed the federal government to levy income taxes on individual citizens
B) New Deal programs of the 1930s in response to the Great Depression
C) introduction of large social insurance and welfare programs by the federal government
D) increase in the number of programs mandated by the federal government but funded at the state or local level
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