By providing steady cash, "CCT" programs shield poor families from the worst effects of unemployment, catastrophicillness, and other shocks to household income.
Health care costs also have outstripped inflation; the cost of a catastrophicillness can quickly knock a middle-class household into another, better-defined economic category: poverty.
医疗费用的增速甚至也超过了通胀率;生一场大病就能迅速把一个中产家庭打入贫困家庭的行列。
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It's not just catastrophicillness that can send consumers deep into debt.