Select all items that increase personal income.
wages
allowance
earned income tax credit
rent subsidy

The correct answer is: "All the options provided increase personal income".

Wages are the retribution of providing a person's skills and effort to production of good and services or entrepeneurial activities.

Allowance is an amount of money that one person is voluntarily willing to give to another individual without asking for a refund or any other requirement in exchange for it.

The Earned Income Tax Credit is the amount transferred by the Income Tax authorities to individuals with lower incomes, as part of the redistributive mechanisms.

A rent subsidy is granted by a public entity to specific households with a very bad economic situation, to help them pay their home rents.

answer; the above statement is (false);

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)