An example of mandatory spending is financing for a. interest payments on the federal debt. b. national defense. c. medical research programs. d. elementary and secondary education programs.

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its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.