According to the textbook, income inequality statistics can be misleading because
A) they are collected by the Census Bureau, whose objectivity cannot be trusted.
B) they ignore the income mobility of individual families and households through time.
C) they do not take into account inflation.
D) they fail to be of use in policy proposals and debates.
Answer: B) they ignore the income mobility of individual families and households through time.
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