单选题 Which of the following proposals best responds to the issues raised by the author?

A、 Innovative programmes using multiple approaches should be set up to reduce the level of unemployment.
B、 A compromise should be found between the positions of those who view joblessness an evil greater than economic control and those who hold the opposite view.
C、 New statistical indices should be developed to measure the degree to which unemployment and inadequately paid employment cause suffering.
D、 Consideration should be given to the ways in which statistics can act as partial causes of the phenomena that they purport to measure.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 从文章最后一句话：“There is only one area of agreement in this debate-that the existing poverty，employment，and earnings statistics are inadequate for one of their primary applications，measuring the consequences of labor market problems．”可以看出，作者对现有的统计数据并不满意，认为新的统计标准应该被用来衡量失业和收入过少的职业。答案[D]也提到了统计法，但它说“统计法可能是造成它想衡量的现象的原因之一。”这种说法完全是无本之木。