puhekieltä A situation where the welfare system discourages people who receive governmentpublic 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."