The relative definition of poverty states that ________

a. the poor in the United States are worse off today than they were 55 years ago
b. the poor in the United States are identified as those who are permanently and unwillingly poor
c. poverty has become less chronic
d. poverty has become less dysfunctional


Answer: a

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