[Video] Q14: According to the passage, which choice best describes the current financial situation in many major american cities?

Explanation for Question 14 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Question 14 says according to the passage, 2 what's choice best describes the current financial situation in many major American cities. 3 So since this question starts off with the phrase, 4 according to the passage, we know that the answer is going to come directly 5 from text evidence. So let's look back in the passage and see what we 6 can find. If we look at the beginning 7 of the second paragraph, this is where they're going to talk about the state 8 of America's major cities. It says America's major cities, 9 face, enormous fiscal problems, fiscal meaning financial. 10 So money problems, many of them, the result of public pension obligations, 11 they incurred in more prosperous years of the past two decades. 12 So American cities are facing financial issues because of obligations 13 they promised to fulfill in years 14 that they were or decades that they were making more money. So let's see 15 which answer choice best matches this description of the state of American cities. 16 If we look at answer choice a, 17 it says that there are expected tax increases 18 due to demand for public works. So public works means things just like public 19 improvement projects. So redoing roads, 20 building monuments, things like that. But we can see, 21 we don't see in any of the passage, 22 any talk of taxes or anything like that. 23 So with that being said, 24 you can automatically eliminate answer choices, 25 a and C again, 26 just because taxes aren't mentioned anywhere in this pas...