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A severe car accident which incurs a huge hospital bill is an example of which explanation for poverty?

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The correct answer would be fatalism.

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One way to classify this poverty is to say that this is a situational poverty, that is, poverty caused by the situation (here, the hospital bill is caused by the accident).

It's different for example from generational poverty, when some aspects of poverty are inherited.
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