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According to the text,in the time since the passage of the Equal Opportunity Act in 1964,the poverty rate has gone up,while economic output has roughly doubled.What is the most likely reason for this phenomenon?


A) Skills,training,and education among the poorest citizens have been insufficient to capture much of the benefit from economic expansion.
B) Generally,only the wealthy benefit from economic prosperity,and that period was no different than any other.
C) Over a 50-year period,people move up and down the economic ladder,so that level of poverty is just natural and will always exist.
D) The law had unintended consequences and proved to serve as an effective tax on the poor,transferring wealth to the affluent and the middle class.
E) The poverty threshold,as determined by the federal government,has outpaced the rate of economic growth.

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