The Real Purchasing Power of the Average Worker's Yearly Earnings

question 53

Multiple Choice

The real purchasing power of the average worker's yearly earnings in the United States in 2014 was ____ as in 1929.

• A) five times as large
• B) more than twice as large
• C) about the same
• D) about half as much

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