According to sociologists, Hurricane Katrina disproportionately affected poor black people in New Orleans because of ghettoized poverty, itself the consequence of:

a. an unwillingness of the political leadership to try to save the most impoverished after struggling to save the lower-middle class and middle-class residents
b. a lack of education for the poor, preventing them from following instructions
c. a surplus of resources for the poor that had been squandered
d. a scarcity of resources for poor people


Answer: d. a scarcity of resources for poor people

Sociology

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a. Seeking thrills b. Seeking money c. Seeking actions d. Seeking power

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