Which sentence below best explains how Samuel Gompers improved the lives of factory workers? a - Gompers was unhappy with the low wages and long working hours that workers faced.
b - He led the effort to organize the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and became its first president in 1886.
c - Samuel Gompers was a Jewish immigrant who moved with his family from London to New York City as a teenager.
d - He worked as a cigar maker alongside his father.

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even though you have attached neither the chart nor the generalizations, i have located them online. the right answer is d, since they are asking you about a generalization. you can only infer from the chart that between 2008 and 2009 the number of employed workers decreased significantly (from over 115 millions to 107 millions approximately), which signals some type of economic crisis.