"In fact, in the midterm elections that were just held in the US, many of the crucial issues were closely related to the concerns of the middle class," Lin Wan-I points out. The TANF program initiated under the Clinton administration successfully reduced the percentage of the American population defined as "poor" to below 10 %, but now it has risen back up to 13 %.
「事實上，剛剛結束的美國期中選舉，許多與中產階級息息相關的社會議題，就是主導選戰成敗的關鍵，」林萬億指出，柯林頓時代推出的 TANF 法案，曾成功的讓美國窮人比例減少到 10 % 以下的水準，但現在又升高至原先的 13 %，讓中產階級大感沈重。