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