Economics For Today
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A)The situation where government assistance can result in a low or zero net gain for working.
B)The situation where a person becomes unemployed and cannot find another job.
C)The situation where a person becomes disabled and cannot work.
D)The poverty trap occurs when a person is poor, and structural discrimination prevents that person from escaping poverty.
In social welfare programs, there is no way to change either the benefit reduction rate or the benefit guarantee to simultaneously achieve all three goals of encouraging work, redistributing more income and lowering costs.
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