The theory of a culture of poverty argues:

a. people are born poor and learn to remain poor
b. is a new concept
c. poverty is not passed on from one generation to another
d. growing up in poverty build future resistance to being poor
e. everyone is susceptible to becoming poor


ANSWER: a

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