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From the Ted Talk by Ann-Helén Bay: Why is it so hard to escape poverty?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
imignae that you’ve been unemployed and seeking work for months. Government bnieeft programs have heepld you cover rent, utilities, and food, but you're barely getting by. Finally, you hear back about a job application. You receive your first paycheck in months, and things seem to be turning around. But there’s a catch. Your new job pays just enough to disqualify you from the benefit programs, and not enough to cover the same ctoss. To make things worse, you have to pay for transportation to work, and childcare while you’re at the office. Somehow, you have less money now than when you were uoymlpeend.
Open Cloze
_______ that you’ve been unemployed and seeking work for months. Government _______ programs have ______ you cover rent, utilities, and food, but you're barely getting by. Finally, you hear back about a job application. You receive your first paycheck in months, and things seem to be turning around. But there’s a catch. Your new job pays just enough to disqualify you from the benefit programs, and not enough to cover the same _____. To make things worse, you have to pay for transportation to work, and childcare while you’re at the office. Somehow, you have less money now than when you were __________.
Solution
- costs
- imagine
- unemployed
- benefit
- helped
Original Text
Imagine that you’ve been unemployed and seeking work for months. Government benefit programs have helped you cover rent, utilities, and food, but you're barely getting by. Finally, you hear back about a job application. You receive your first paycheck in months, and things seem to be turning around. But there’s a catch. Your new job pays just enough to disqualify you from the benefit programs, and not enough to cover the same costs. To make things worse, you have to pay for transportation to work, and childcare while you’re at the office. Somehow, you have less money now than when you were unemployed.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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poverty traps |
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basic income |
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government assistance |
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welfare trap |
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universal basic |
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universal basic income |
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Important Words
- application
- barely
- benefit
- catch
- childcare
- costs
- cover
- disqualify
- finally
- food
- government
- hear
- helped
- imagine
- job
- money
- months
- office
- pay
- paycheck
- pays
- programs
- receive
- rent
- seeking
- transportation
- turning
- unemployed
- utilities
- work
- worse