Question

The New Right felt that federal welfare programs _____. lowered taxes and strengthened the traditional family were key to ending stagflation and homelessness rewarded lack of effort and worsened poverty promoted economic growth and individual choice.

Answer 1

The New Right felt that federal welfare programs lowered taxes and strengthened the traditional family

Answer 2

The New Right felt that federal welfare programs: rewarded lack of effort and worsened poverty.

Since the federal welfare programs granted further value of benefits to those employees who worked at the minimum hourly rate, people started to believe that they would prefer to become unemployed intead of having to try to find a job.

In this light, since the federal welfare programs rewarded lack of effort, poverty was increasingly worsened.