"Nonetheless," says Minister without Portfolio Lin Wan-I, "although the income gap in Taiwan cannot be considered especially large, because the social safety net of unemployment insurance, national pensions, and so on is far from complete, it is relatively easy for people from the middle class to fall into poverty and become the 'new poor.'"
「台灣的所得級距差距雖然不大，但由於失業保險、國民年金等社會安全網不完善，導致從中產階級被淘汰落入近貧圈者，非常容易就會成為『新貧』，」行政院政務委員林萬億說。