Your text quotes Congressman Paul Ryan as making a culture-based argument regarding the urban underclass: “We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with.”
Respond to his argument by illustrating how structural factors have contributed to the development of the urban underclass.
What will be an ideal response?
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