Feagin's study in 1975 found that the majority of those in the United States attribute poverty and homelessness to

a. personal failures such as having a poor work ethic, and poor money management skills.
b. structural causes such as racism, poor schools and the lack of sufficient employment
c. both personal failures and structural causes equally.
d. to personal factors when they did not know the person, and structural causes when they did know the person.


A

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