Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one ,and there are extremely strong and powerful political pressures to keep it that way. Any attempt to redistribute wealth and income in the United States will inevitably be opposed by powerful middle and upper class interests. People can be relatively rich only if others are relatively poor, and since power is concentrated in the hands of the rich, public policies will continue to reflect their interests rather than those of the poor.
As Herbert Gans (1973) has pointed out, poverty is actually functional from the point of view of the non-poor. Poverty ensures that" dirty" work gets done. If there were, no poor people to scrub floors and empty waste, these jobs would have to be rewarded with high incomes before anyone would touch them. Poverty creates jobs for many of the non-poor, such as police officers, welfare workers, pawnbrokers, and government bureaucrats. Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providi
A. lack such desirable qualities as saving or honesty
B. are not inclined to work hard
C. are not willing to bear the costs of change
D. have no power to change the present economic system
国务院常务会议根据中央经济工作会议去产能、降成本、补短板的要求，决定从2016年1月1日起下调燃煤发电上网电价，全国平均每度降低约3分钱。工商业销售电价也将全国同步下调。对此行为看法正确的是（）
①发挥价格调控作用，压缩电力行业落后产能
②用电企业节能改造，提高自主创新能力
③燃煤发电项目规模增长，推进节能减排
④降低用电企业生产成本，提高经济效益
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