摘要：Antipoverty programs are designed to mitigate the most
pernicious aspects of market-based economic outcomes—
unemployment, disability, low earnings, and other mate-
rial hardship.
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These programs compose society’s “safety
net” and each has different eligibility standards and beneft
formulas. Although the programs can be aggregated and cat-
egorized to summarize trends in coverage and generosity, a
consequence of their patchwork nature is that the safety net
may appear different to a family in one set of circumstances
than it does to a family in another.
