It is clear that the nation’s labor force will diminish during the next 20 years. Population growth in our country reached its apex in 1961, and by the late 1960s more heads of households were employed in this country than ever before. This growth rate has slackened significantly, and by 1995 the number of households overall will be reduced, thus decreasing the number of potential employees in the work force.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusion drawn above?
Crux of the argument is that employees would decrease because the number f households will decrease due to reduced pace of population growth.
A. Employers who do not wish to scale back the size of their operations will have to pursue qualified employees more aggressively after 1995. - WRONG. Quality of employees is not discussed so this goes off the path. Also, pursuing employees after 1995 is out of scope.
B. Experts predict that after a downturn in the quality of employee benefits during the 1980s and early 1990s, the overall quality of benefits offered to employees will rise by 1995. - WRONG. Similar to option A, it goes off-track.
C. The proportional representation of heads of households in the labor market increased between the years 1988 and 1992. - WRONG. It does not elaborate anything.
D. It has become progressively harder since the 1960s for households to subsist on a single earner’s pay, so an increasing proportion of the labor market are those who are not heads of households. - CORRECT. Since it has become harder for families to survive on single pay, other members of the households have started entering the labor market, increasing the work force. It goes against the decrease anticipated in the argument.
E. By 1995 there will be far more people managing their own businesses than there have ever been previously. - WRONG. Similar to option C it does not elaborates anything only that relative to 1960s more number of people would be into their own business than labor force.
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IMO Answer D.
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