What is the most significant threat to the relatively high standard of living people are accustomed to in the united states? the stagnation of wages for workers the decline of the middle class the feminization of poverty the growth of the upper class?

increasing defense spending.

explanation:

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts