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Le niveau de vie

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Standard of living, living-standards

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Le fosse se creuse

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The Gap is widening

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Le PIB par tête, par habitant

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GDP per head, per inhabitant

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Mode de vie

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Lifestyle, way of life

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Le pouvoir d’achat

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Buying power, spending power, purchasing power

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Riche

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Rich, wealthy

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La richesse

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Wealth

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Aisé

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Well-off

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Nanti

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Well-to-do

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Fortuné

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Well-heeled

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Vivre dans l’aisance, être nanti

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To be affluent

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La richesse, l’abondance

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Affluence

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Des richesses

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Riches

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Les grandes fortunes

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The super rich, The mega rich

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Bourré de fric, plein aux as

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Stinking rich

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Parmi les nantis, les possédants

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In moneyed circles

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Un millionnaire en dollars

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A dollar millionaire

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Un milliardaire

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A billionaire

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Un multimilliardaire

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A zillionaire, a multimillionaire

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Un magnat du pétrole

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An oil magnate

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Un baron de la presse

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A press baron

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Un magnat des médias

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A media mogul

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Un roi des logiciels

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A software tycoon

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Le revenu

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Income

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L'impôt sur le revenu
Income tax
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Un paradis fiscal
A tax heaven
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La fraude fiscale
Tax evasion
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Familles à hauts / bas revenus
High Income / low Income families
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Un contribuable
A taxpayer
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Les gains
Earnings
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Un gros Richard
A fat cat
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La pauvreté
Poverty
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Les pauvres
The poor
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Les travailleurs pauvres
The working poor
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Pauvre
Impoverished
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Les nécessiteux / les indulgents
The needy
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La misère
Extreme Poverty / dire Poverty
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Les plus démunis
The most destitute
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Sombrer dans la pauvreté
To Sink into Poverty
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En dessous / au dessus du seuil de pauvreté
Below/ above The Poverty line
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Un ménage à revenu modeste
A low Income household
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Défavorisé
Deprived, disadvantaged, underprivileged
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Vivre avec 2 dollars par jour
To live on 2$ a day
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Vivre d'allocations
To live on The benefit (GB) , on welfare(US)
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L'inégalité
Inaquality
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Inégal
Unequal, uneven
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Repartir
To share out
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La répartition de la richesse
The distribution of Wealth
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La fracture sociale
The Gap between The haves and The have nots
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Combler le fossé
To bridge, to close The Gap
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Le fossé se comble
The Gap is closing/narrowing
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Le fossé se creuse
The Gap is widening
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Le fossé social
The social divide
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Un écart
A dispcrepancy
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L'équilibre / le déséquilibre
Balance / imbalance
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Équilibré / déséquilibré
Balanced / unbalanced
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Rétablir la balance
To redress The balance
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L'ascension professionnelle
Career advancement
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L'ascenseur social
The social ladder
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Monter dans l'échelle sociale
To move up The social ladder | To be upwardly mobile
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L'ascension sociale
Upward social mobility
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L'histoire de qq qui est passé de la misère à la richesse
A rags-to-riches story
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Partir de rien
To start from scratch
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Faire fortune
To Strike gold , to Strike it rich
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L'égalité des chances
Equality of opportunity
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Le niveau social
Social standing
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Le statut social
Social status
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La baisse du niveau de vie
A decline in living standards
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Peiner à s'en sortir
To struggle To get by, struggle by
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Avoir du mal à payer des factures
To have difficulty paying The bills
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La survie
Survival
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Sans abri
Homeless
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Il y a de plus en plus de sans abri
Homelessness is on The rise
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Un clodo
A tramp, a bum
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Une clocharde
A bag lady
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Une soupe populaire
A soup kitchen, a bread line US
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Le quart monde
The underclass

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