Based on What You Have Read, as the United States

question 13

Multiple Choice

Based on what you have read, as the United States develops a postindustrial economy, economic inequality has been:

• A) likely to disappear.
• B) decreasing.
• C) holding at about the same level.
• D) increasing.

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