The Income Distribution in the United States Is

question 23

Multiple Choice

The income distribution in the United States is

• A)considered evenly distributed because income has increased, on average, evenly for all wage earners
• B)has a normal distribution because the highest bracket of income earners is still at the medium wage
• C)considered skewed since a very small percentage of households can earn very high incomes and a large percentage of households earn low incomes.
• D)evenly proportioned as income is proportionate to skills.

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