Poverty Flashcards by Jordane Eugénie

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Les sans ressources

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The poor / the destitute /the indigent

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Le dénuement, l’indigence, la misère

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Destitution

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Les défavorisés

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The underprivileged / the underclass

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Tomber dans le piège de la pauvreté

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To fall into the poverty trap

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Être pauvre

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To be poverty stricken/ poverty ridden (a)

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Vivre en dessous du seuil de pauvreté

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To live below the poverty line

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Les démunis

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The dispossessed / the have-nots

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La précarité / précaire

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Precariousness /precarious (a)

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Les travailleurs pauvres

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The working poor

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Mener une vie d’expédients

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To live a hand-to-mouth existence

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Gagner une maigre pitance

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To eke out a living

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Avoir de maigres revenus

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To live on a meager income

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S’en sortir à peine

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To barely get by

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Être dans la gêne, dans le besoin

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To be badly off/in need / poorly off

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Être à court d’argent

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To be hard up corn/ short of money / pressed for money / strapped for cash

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Être sans le sou, fauché

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To be penniless /Broke / busted / skint

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Fréquenter les restos du cœur

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To be on the breadline

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Joindre les deux bouts

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To make both ends meet

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Vivre d’expédients

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To live from hand to mouth

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Les disparités de fortune criantes

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Gross wealth disparities

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Une région en difficulté

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A depressed area / a pocket of poverty

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Aider les pauvres

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To assist the poor

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Toucher le RMI

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To be on income support

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Le RMI/RSA

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The guaranteed minimum income

Un État-Providence / la protection sociale

A welfare state / social welfare

Une société d'assistés

A Nanny state

Un chèque d'assistance

A welfare check / a relief check

La solidarité

Welfare responsibility / solidarity

Une société solidaire

A caring society

Toucher l'assistance

To be on welfare

La sujétion à l'aide sociale

Welfare dependency

Dépendre d'aumônes

To depend / to rely on handouts

Un assisté

A welfare recipient / a welfarite

Un parasite / a profiteur

A welfare scrounger

Éradiquer, soulager la misère

To eradicate / to alleviate poverty

Un programme de paiement conditionnel

A conditional cash-transfer program (CCT)

Donner de l'argent, de la nourriture (à)

To give stipends / food (to)

Satisfaire certaines conditions

To meet certain conditions

Une incitation, une aide à l'emploi

A job incentive

Être poussé à renoncer à l'aide sociale

To be forced off welfare