人们感到“拮据”,因为他们不断增加的收入常常不能满足他们不断增长的需求,包括更大的房子,更多的医疗保健,更多的教育,更快的网络连接。
People feel "squeezed" because their rising incomes often don't satisfy their rising wants—for bigger homes, more health care, more education, faster Internet connections.
当孩子们年幼时,需要依靠家庭满足财务需求,而收入不高的家庭很难购买足够的人寿保险来保护母亲和孩子。
When the children are young and depend upon the family for financial needs, families with modest incomes have difficulty providing enough life insurance to protect the mother and the children.
第一个体现在我们孜孜不倦地追求平衡的水平上,在这个水平上,福利津贴要大到足以满足基本需要,但又要小到足以使低收入工作具有吸引力。
The first manifests itself in our tireless search for the magical level at which welfare grants are big enough to meet basic needs but small enough to make low-paid work attractive.
Once those needs are met, income makes very little difference.
这些需要一旦得到满足,收入的影响就微乎其微。
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