Given high unemployment, inflationary problems, and slow growth in real earnings, a working wife can increase household income and relieve some of these pressing financial burdens.

考虑到高失业率、通货膨胀问题和实际收入增长缓慢，有工作的妻子可以增加家庭收入，并减轻一些这些紧迫的经济负担。

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The nearly half-century old programme, one of the Democrats' signature achievements, is suffering under two pressing burdens - the ever-growing cost of an inefficient healthcare system and the imminent retirement of the baby-boom generation, more and more of whom are becoming eligible for benefits.

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