According to Bourgois in "Poverty at Work: Office Work and the Crack

question 16

Multiple Choice

According to Bourgois in "Poverty at Work: Office Work and the Crack Alternative," as reported in the 1990 census,

• A) 78.4 percent of the women living in New York's Spanish Harlem received public assistance.
• B) 48.3 percent of men living in Spanish Harlem were "officially employed."
• C) more than half the Puerto Rican men living in Spanish Harlem sell crack cocaine.
• D) 42.4 percent of Puerto Rican men living in Spanish Harlem have fathered children with women to whom they are not married.

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