In the United States, over the past four decades, income inequality-according to some theories, a major factor associated with deviance, crime, and drug abuse-has:

A. remained the same.
B. decreased.
C. increased.
D. fluctuated wildly and erratically from year to year.
E. none of the above.


Answer: C

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