A budget deficit occurs when government expenditure is greater than revenue. When this happens the government is now forced to acquire loans to remedy the deficiency and as such national debt grows. A budget surplus occurs when revenue is greater than expenditure. When this occurs there is no need to get more loans and the surplus can now be used to service the national debt; thus reducing it.
The first president was C. George Washington.
Ukraine is sometimes called the “breadbasket of Europe.”
A philosophy, during World War II, of repairing clothes etc that would normally be discarded due to shortages and rationing.
the Chinese workers were content/happy performing the jobs few white men wanted
Explanation:
- As the author of the text says "As long as Chinese were content with jobs few white men wanted, then the whites ignored them. But as soon as Chinese landed better jobs or ventured into more attractive industries then trouble brewed, especially during hard economic times. Whites feared employers would use the Chinese to drive down wages and reduce whites to a status no higher than that of the Chinese workers themselves."
- Otherwise, whites were sometimes actually doing some awful things to Chinese workers.