By making infrastructure improvements, the government would change the misery index by raising the unemployment rate but lowering the inflation rate. lowering the unemployment rate and lowering the inflation rate. lowering the unemployment rate but raising the inflation rate. raising the unemployment rate and raising the inflation rate.
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