Which statement about the distribution of income in the United States is CORRECT?
a. The unequal distribution of income in the United States is comparable to that of other advanced democracies.
b. The distribution of income in the United States has been steadily becoming more equal over the past 30 years.
c. The distribution of income is much more unequal in the United States than in other advanced democracies and has been steadily rising over the past 30 years.
d. The unequal distribution of income in the United States has become of particular concern to U.S. politicians since 1980 due to fears of class warfare.
e. The unequal distribution of income in the United States is fairly evenly spread across racial groups.
c
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The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)
a. established a bracero program in the United States, allowing Mexican workers to enter the United States to provide much-needed manpower. b. made it illegal to Mexican migrant workers in the United States to send remittances to their relatives in Mexico. c. allowed migrants who had resided in the United states for a long time to gain legal residency rights. d. heightened efforts in the United States to establish a border fence along the U.S.–Canadian and U.S.–Mexican borders to make crossing these borders more difficult. e. cut off social services for undocumented Mexican migrants in the United States.
Over the years, Congress has tended to become
a. less polarized. b. less productive. c. more argumentative. d. more moderate. e. more polarized.