[A, 33-34]

Because of an increase in the work-force participation rate for women, the availability of

uncompensated child-care (free care by aunts, sisters, and grandmothers) has become less

available to poor women so as a consequence the fact that child-care must now be paid

for suggests that the

a)

poverty line should be revised upward

b)

poverty line should be revised downward

c)

poverty gap is overstated

d)

poverty rate is overstated