After 1928, the share of the United States’ national income that went to the top 1 percent of the population declined. Then, between 1979 and 2013, it increased. The amount of income received by the top 1 percent doubled in that time period to more than 20 percent, which is an example of

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After 1928, the share of the United States’ national income that went to the top 1 percent of the population declined. Then, between 1979 and 2013, it increased. The amount of income received by the top 1 percent doubled in that time period to more than 20 percent, which is an example of
A. the negative effects of both the Great Depression and the Great Recession. 
B. how make-work and other welfare programs do not increase equality.
C. economic inequality within a developed country. 
D. the equalizing nature of free trade. 
E. spatial patterns in inequality.

GPT 3.5 · Answer

C. economic inequality within a developed country.