The culture of poverty refers to ________

A) how entire countries are poor and create little opportunity for advancement
B) how workers in sweatshops are paid so little that everyone in the family must work
C) how the crisis of profit encourages business to keep slashing wages and benefits
D) how values and attitudes of poverty are passed on to children, keeping them poor


Answer: D

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