A charity plans to invest annual payments of $60,000, $70,000, $75,000, and $50,000, respectively, over the next four years. The first payment will be invested one year from today.
Assuming the investment earns 5.5 percent annually, how much will the charity have available four years from now?

a) $263,025 b) $328,572 c) $236,875 d) $277,491 e) $285,737

Label each of the following statements true, false, or uncertain. explain your choice carefully. a. workers benefit equally from the process of creative destruction. b. in the past two decades, the real wages of low-skill u. s. workers have declined relative to the real wages of high-skill workers. c. technological progress leads to a decrease in employment if, and only if, the increase in output is smaller than the increase in productivity. d. the apparent decrease in the natural rate of unemployment in the united states in the second-half of the 1990s can be explained by the fact that productivity growth was unexpectedly high during that period.