During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure had been transformed by economic risk and new realities.
?、貲uring the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure had been transformed by economic risk and new realities.
②Now a pink slip, a bad diagnosis, or a disappearing spouse can reduce a family from solidly middle class to newly poor in a few months.
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?、僭谏弦淮酥?,原本依靠努力工作和公平競爭就能保持經(jīng)濟(jì)狀況穩(wěn)定的美國中產(chǎn)階級(jí)家庭因經(jīng)濟(jì)風(fēng)險(xiǎn)和新的現(xiàn)實(shí)狀況而發(fā)生了變化。
?、诂F(xiàn)在,一張解雇通知書,一個(gè)惡性診斷結(jié)果,或者配偶的離去,都可以使一個(gè)穩(wěn)固的中產(chǎn)階級(jí)家庭在幾個(gè)月內(nèi)成為新的貧困戶。