If a Lorenz Curve for Income Moves Rightward and Becomes

question 117

Multiple Choice

If a Lorenz curve for income moves rightward and becomes more bowed out over time, then

• A) the population is growing.
• B) income is growing.
• C) income is being more equally distributed.
• D) income is being more unequally distributed.

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An alliance of the Iroquois tribes, originally formed sometime between 1450 and 1600, that used their combined strength to pressure Europeans to work with them in the fur trade and to wage war across what is today eastern North America.

Iroquois

A historically powerful and influential group of Native American tribes in the northeastern United States, known for their sophisticated political system and the Iroquois Confederacy.