English Dictionary

welfare trap

名詞

アメリカ英語

(chiefly US) A situation where the welfare system discourages people who receive government public assistance payments from entering low-paid work because such work does not produce a significant income increase.

日本語の意味

公共福祉制度が、低賃金労働による収入増が不十分なために、福祉受給者が低賃金労働へ就く意欲をそがれる状況

Many policymakers debate how to reform the welfare trap that discourages recipients from taking low-paid work because the additional income often makes little difference.

多くの政策担当者は、低賃金の仕事に就いても収入がほとんど増えないため公的扶助の受給者が就労をためらってしまうという福祉制度の罠をどのように改革するかを議論している。

意味（1）

(chiefly US) A situation where the welfare system discourages people who receive government public assistance payments from entering low-paid work because such work does not produce a significant income increase.

Mr. Hayakawa said there was a class of able-bodied persons who would rather collect public assistance than take jobs. . . . Cutting off food stamp benefits to these people, he said, would remove a disincentive to work, close off one of the doors into the welfare trap.

welfare traps （ plural ）