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Identify the writing problem(s) in the following paragraph: The U. S. government defines poverty using an income-based threshold created in the early 1960s, which set the poverty level at 3 times the yearly cost of a basic food budget. Except for adjustments for inflation, it has remained unchanged since it was established despite the fact that today's families spend more on housing, child care, and health care than food. Social service workers spend much of their time trying to help families in need patch together a network of resources to meet their basic needs. Because the level of public assistance has not kept pace with other costs, this means they spend a greater proportion of their income on basic necessities that are not accounted for in the poverty equation. Further, it fails to account for regional differences in costs or receipt of other benefits such as Medicaid and Food Stamps.A. The information is poorly organizedB. The author has failed to cite sourcesC. The author's meaning is not clear because he or she has used too many pronouns with unclear antecedentsD. None of the above - the paragraph is correct as written
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C. The author's meaning is not clear because he or she has used too many pronouns with unclear antecedents.

Explanation:

The excerpt was well written till it got to the fourth sentence.

The author's meaning is not clear and there is no clear conclusion to the paragraph because the author used too many pronouns from the fourth sentence.

"Because the level of public assistance has not kept pace with other costs, this means they spend a greater proportion of their income on basic necessities that are not accounted for in the poverty equation" and "Further, it fails to account for regional differences in costs or receipt of other benefits such as Medicaid and Food Stamps" are unclear sentences with pronouns that have no antecedents.

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