In the improving American economy of the 1920s,
A) many Americans were still living in poverty, especially the factory workers.
B) the percentage of national wealth that went to the poorest 60 percent fell by almost 13 percent during the 1920s, causing the wealthy to increase their wealth at the expense of the poor.
C) it was easier for poor farmers to rise out of poverty.
D) the wealth of the Roaring Twenties was a come-and-go phenomenon.
E) Latinos living and working in the American Southwest were gradually ascending into the middle class.

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The percentage of national wealth that went to the poorest 60 percent fell by almost 13 percent during the 1920s, causing the wealthy to increase their wealth at the expense of the poor.

In the Improving American Economy of the 1920s