Participants were randomly selected, but had to be receiving unemployment benefits or an income subsidy.

虽然项目的保障对象是随机挑选的，但必须是领失业补助或收入补贴的人。

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But last year, thanks to an economic slowdown, this income, really a disguised subsidy, fell by almost two-thirds.

但是去年，由于全球经济衰退，国家收入——其实是一种变相补贴——减少了大约三分之二。

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Thus, the opera subsidy representsa transfer from relatively low income people to richer people, which is notconsistent with societal goals of equalization.

这样一来，剧院补贴就使得财富从低收入者转移给了高收入者，这不符合社会公平的目标。

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As the table below demonstrates, those who qualify for the low-income subsidy pay very little for their prescription drugs.

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"Twenty-eight percent of low-income subsidy recipients are currently in plans that are free to them, but will not be free to them if they stay in that plan in 2008, " says Kevin Prindiville of the National Senior Citizen's Law Center.

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But last year, thanks to an economic slowdown, this income, really a disguised subsidy, fell by almost two-thirds.

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