Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Since the early 1970s, wages have more or less stagnated and the distribution of wages has become increasingly unequal.
2. There has been an appreciable reduction in the poverty rate since the 1960s.
3. The poor are more likely to be over 65 and less likely to be under 18 than they were in 1960.
4. Although intergenerational upward social mobility is still pretty common, it has slowed in the Age of Growing Inequality.
1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
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