Professor Lucy Dobbs of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations recently wrote that chain stores weaken local economies. Compared to chain stores, local businesses spend 6 percent more on hiring local workers. Local charities report significantly higher donations from local businesses. In one town, United Way received most of its income from two local groceries, a hometown bank, and a handful of local specialty shops. What evidence suggests that local businesses are more generous than chain stores?

These are the answer choices for the question:

a. Local businesses strengthen local economies.

b. Local businesses hire local workers.

c. Local businesses make bigger donations to charities.

d. Local businesses give to their local United Way.

And this is the correct answer choice:

c. Local businesses make bigger donations to charities.

Explanation:

In the text of the question, several arguments are made in favor of local businesses over chain stores, and one of these arguments is the fact that local charities report significantly higher donations from local businesses.

This argument works as evidence to support the point that local businesses are at least more generous than chain stores. However, this point cannot be used to determine that local businesses are better for the overall economy than chain stores, because many other aspects would have to be factored in to reach such a conclusion.

the industrial development of cities in the ruhr area in the nineteenth century is described. the research was based on english and german language sources. several factors that shaped growth and paths of the cities were categorized and analyzed. they are locations, resources, traditions, entrepreneurs, and technological developments. locations and resources were the most important among them; other factors may be regarded as consequences from locations and resources. among the cities, bochum, essen, gelsenkirchen, and dortmund had the richest resources and most favorable locations in the transportation network and grew to be the largest cities in the ruhr area near the end of the nineteenth century. riverside location was also a favorable factor for the development, as shown in the development of duisburg on the confluence of rhine and ruhr. resource distribution can explain the rise of textile industry, metallurgical industry, and coal and iron industries, and the northward progression of the mining industry. tradition was an important factor for cities such as krefeld, barmen, elberfeld, solingen, and remscheid, which experienced development based on their traditions through the nineteenth century. various entrepreneurs exerted influences within and beyond the local level over the ruhr area. technological development stimulated the northward progression of the mining industry and the deep connection between the coal and the iron industries.