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Now, let me be very clear: the 14.8 percent of Americans living in poverty need money, plain and simple.
我說的再明白一些，就是在美國，窮人占14.8%，他們需要錢，簡單易懂。
And all of us need policies that protect us from exploitation by employers and financial institutions.
所有人都需要政策保護，免受雇主和金融機構的剝削。
Nothing that follows is meant to suggest that the gap between rich and poor is anything but profoundly immoral.
這些并不是表明貧富差距是道德的。
But, too often we let the conversation stop there.
但是，我們經常談到這就不說了。
We talk about poverty as if it were a monolithic experience; about the poor as if they were solely victims.
我們談起貧窮，就好像它是單獨存在的一樣，談起窮人，就好像他們只是受害者。
Part of what I've learned in my research and reporting is that the art of living well is often practiced most masterfully by the most vulnerable.
在研究報告中，我發現最為弱勢的群體，反而最能掌握生活安逸這門藝術。
Now, if necessity is the mother of invention, I've come to believe that recession can be the father of consciousness.
如果，需要是發明之母，那么我就認為衰退是覺醒之父。
It confronts us with profound questions, questions we might be too lazy or distracted to ask in times of relative comfort.
我們面臨諸多問題，在生活相對安逸的情況下，我們可能不能集中注意，或是懶于回答：
How should we work? How should we live?
我們應當怎樣工作？我們應當怎樣生活？
All of us, whether we realize it or not, seek answers to these questions, with our ancestors kind of whispering in our ears.
不論是否意識到，我們所有人都在尋求這些問題的答案，就像是祖先在耳邊低語。
