social justice quiz 2012: 13 questions
http://www.nationofchange.org/social-justice-quiz-2012-thirteen-questions-1328020073Question One. The combined pay of the 299 highest paid CEOs in the US is enough to support how many median salary jobs?
45,000? 83,000? 102,325?
Two. The median net worth of black households in the US is $2,200. What is the median net worth of white households in the US?
$4,400? $44,000? $97,000?
Three. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development issues a national survey every year listing fair market rents for every county in the US. HUD also suggests renters should pay no more than 30 percent of their income on housing costs. In how many of the USAs 3068 counties can someone who works full-time and earns the federal minimum wage pay 30% of their income and find a one-bedroom apartment at the fair market rental amount?
19? 368? 1974?
Four. How much must the typical U.S. worker earn per hour to rent a two-bedroom apartment if that worker dedicates thirty percent of his income, as HUD suggests, to rent and utilities?
$9.39? $14.63? $18.46?
rurallib
(62,420 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)and that includes the president.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)and fox nation
Seven. In 2012, the US will pay out about $620 million for old age Social Security benefits to 45 million families. How much is budgeted for military spending by the US in 2012?
$310 billion? $620 billion? $836 billion?
The answer is $836B, but won't mean that much to Fox viewers who cannot begin to fathom that this means that we could fund old-age pensions for more than a thousand years just using next year's military budget
Edit: Even if the answer were the smallest among these 3, it would still fund the old-age pensions for 500 years
xchrom
(108,903 posts)The SSA says it'll expend about $760 billion on benefits.
But "old age Social Security benefits" are less than 0.1% of that. And are apparently funded at about $15 dollars a year. (Since 45 million families get $620 million, at $10/year those families would cost $450 million and at $15/year that would be $600 million. Right?)
So the real question is, Why is Social Security so inefficient *and* still worthy of our support? Or, Why do we think families in their old age can survive on a smidgeon more than $15/year?
Or perhaps a better question is, Why do these numbers make so little sense?