By 1999, the average pay of chief executive officers of the 500 largest corporations was how many times that of the average worker?
Explanation
This quantitative question tests the reader on a specific statistic illustrating economic inequality in the 1990s.
Other questions
According to Chapter 24, what percentage of votes did Bill Clinton receive in the 1992 presidential election?
Which of the following did Martin Luther King, Jr. believe was fundamentally unjust and in need of radical transformation, a view contrasted with Clinton's philosophy?
Who did Bill Clinton abandon for a job with the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department after conservatives objected to her strong ideas on racial equality?
What event in April 1993, approved by Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno, resulted in the deaths of at least 86 men, women, and children?
What was the name of the 1996 act signed by Clinton that ended the federal government's guarantee of financial help to poor families with dependent children?
The chapter mentions that by the end of Clinton's term, the U.S. military budget was approximately how much per year?
In 1993, the Clinton administration bombed Baghdad in what was claimed to be a retaliation for an assassination plot against which former president?
What was the Clinton administration's response to the genocide in Rwanda, where at least a million people died?
What agreement, enacted with bipartisan support during the Clinton administration, removed obstacles for corporate capital to move freely across the Mexican-U.S. border?
What was the focus of the House of Representatives' impeachment vote against Bill Clinton?
During the 1999 crisis in the Balkans, what was the stated purpose of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia?
According to a Carnegie Endowment study cited in the chapter, a lawyer's child is how many times more likely to end up in the top 10 percent of American incomes than a janitor's child with the same intelligence test scores?
What was a major reason for the Clinton administration's refusal to establish government programs to create jobs, as had been done in the New Deal era?
In 1999, the merger of CBS and Viacom represented a consolidation of media power totaling how much?
What was the significance of the 1999 protests in Seattle?
What was the name of the third-party candidate in the 2000 election who was shut out of the nationally televised debates?
The Supreme Court's decision to stop the Florida recount in the 2000 election was based on what constitutional grounds?
What was the one piece of legislation passed by Congress after the September 11 attacks that gave the Justice Department expanded powers to detain noncitizens?
According to the chapter, critics of the 'war on terrorism' argued that terrorism was rooted in deep grievances against the U.S., including which of the following?
What was the estimated number of home health-care workers in Los Angeles County who won the right to union representation in 1999?
In 1996, the Telecommunications Act enabled what outcome, according to the chapter?
What was the core argument of the protesters against the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle in 1999?
In the 2000 election, Al Gore's Vice Presidential running mate, Joseph Lieberman, was noted for his strong support from what industry?
In his final chapter, Zinn argues that the 'war on terrorism' declared by President Bush after September 11, 2001, could not be won by force. What historical evidence does he cite to support this?
What was the final outcome for the UNITE union's 25-year organizing campaign at Cannon Mills in North Carolina?
Which of the following was a key element of President Clinton's 'law and order' approach, as described in the chapter?
What was the significance of the student-led 'living wage' campaign at Harvard University?
The final chapter criticizes both major parties for being unwilling to tap two possible sources for funding a bold program of social reconstruction. What are these two sources?
In 1998, what was the stated reason for the Clinton administration's bombing of a factory in the Sudan?
By 1995, the richest 1 percent of the U.S. population had gained how much wealth as a result of tax breaks since the late 1970s?
What was the final result of the Supreme Court's involvement in the 2000 presidential election?
In response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, which member of the House of Representatives was the only one to dissent on the resolution giving President Bush the power to proceed with military action?
What was the significance of the 1995 'Million Man March' in Washington, D.C.?
According to the chapter, what was the Clinton administration's bizarre approach to China and Cuba, both considered 'communist'?
In 1996, the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act allowed for the deportation of any immigrant who had done what?
What was the immediate outcome of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in terms of the refugee crisis in Kosovo?
According to the business magazine Forbes, the wealth of the 500 corporations of the Standard and Poor's Index had increased by what percentage in the nineties?
What was the name of the organization formed in 1998 by 2,000 African American men in Chicago?
What was the primary critique of the Clinton administration's foreign economic policy regarding debt-ridden Third World countries?
How did the life expectancy of a black man in Harlem in the 1990s compare to that in Cambodia or the Sudan, according to a UN report cited in the chapter?
The chapter mentions a major policy disagreement between the Clinton administration and over one hundred other nations regarding what type of weaponry?
Who was the founder of the Black Radical Congress, which held its first meeting in Chicago in 1998?
What was the 'bizarre' contradiction in the Clinton administration's foreign policy towards the nations of China and Cuba?
What was the consequence for many legal immigrants of the 1996 welfare reform bill signed by President Clinton?
The chapter suggests a large-scale student movement in the late 1990s and early 2000s focused on what issue, spreading to 150 college campuses?
What was the final result of the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle?
According to Chapter 25, who did Al Gore's running mate Joseph Lieberman have strong support from?
In his final chapter, Zinn cites former Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Bowman as saying the U.S. is hated in the Third World for what reason?
What was the final major piece of legislation passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton that is discussed in Chapter 24?