The gap between rich and poor expanded in recent decades for all of these reasons EXCEPT
a. the intensification of global economic competition.
b. the decline of labor unions.
c. the tax policies of the Carter and Clinton administrations.
d. the shrinking number of semi-skilled and unskilled manufacturing jobs.
e. the greater economic rewards for education.
c
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