In the 1980s, for the first time in the twentieth century
a. income gaps widened between the richest and the poorest Americans.
b. middle-class incomes rose.
c. the poor made economic gains.
d. the economy was uniformly healthy.
e. the majority of Americans were middle class.
a
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