All of the following statements regarding poverty in America between 1950 and 1960 are true EXCEPT that
A. many rural Americans lived on the margins of the affluent society.
B. the percentage of the population living in poverty rose during the decade.
C. Native Americans were the single poorest group in the country.
D. more than 30 million Americans lived below the government poverty line at any given time during the year 1960.
E. most of the poor experienced poverty only temporarily.
Answer: B
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