The newspaper headline below was printed the day after Black Tuesday:


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Which fact made the onset of the events that followed this headline worse?


A: By the end of the 1920s, female factory workers made 20 percent more per week than farm workers.


B: By the end of the 1920s, farm workers made up less than 50 percent of the U.S. workforce.


C: By the end of the 1920s, more than 50 percent of the U.S. population lived in urban areas.


D: By the end of the 1920s, the top 0.01 percent of the U.S. population earned as much as the bottom 42 percent.