Correct. The answer is b. The reform legislation passed in New Zealand included a progressive income tax, compulsory public arbitration in disputes regarding labor and capital, state-funded unemployment services, workers’ compensation, state-funded public works projects, woman suffrage, and state-funded pensions for the aged poor. The Populist movement in the United States at the same time composed a platform that included many of these proposals, most of which did not come to fruition until the twentieth century.
Incorrect. The answer is b. The reform legislation passed in New Zealand included a progressive income tax, compulsory public arbitration in disputes regarding labor and capital, state-funded unemployment services, workers’ compensation, state-funded public works projects, woman suffrage, and state-funded pensions for the aged poor. The Populist movement in the United States at the same time composed a platform that included many of these proposals, most of which did not come to fruition until the twentieth century.