Which of the Following Statements Is Incorrect

question 46

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

• A) Increases in unemployment tend to increase the poverty rate.
• B) The poverty rate of African-Americans has remained relatively constant over 1990s.
• C) Some of the poverty gap between whites and African-Americans is due to discrimination.
• D) Productivity differentials explain little of the wage differential between whites and Hispanics.

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