Cash Incentives for Good Parenting

Cash Incentives for Good Parenting  올바른 자녀양육에 현금인센티브 지급


Tonight, a closer look at one city’s bold new attempt to get people to take better care of their children, their health, and their futures by paying them to do it. It’s a cash rewards program, and it began today for some low-income parents in New York City, with Mayor Michael Bloomberg putting part of his own fortune behind it. It’s a 50-million-dollar incentive program - all private money. But can it work? Is it a good idea? Here’s ABC’s Dan Harris.

low-income : 저소득의 , 저소득층의
fortune : 1. 부 , 큰 재산 [count usually singular] a very large amount of money 2. 운 [uncount] luck, especially good luck
* make/amass a fortune: ex. He had made a fortune from mining.
* cost a fortune: ex. Apartments in this area cost a fortune.
* tell someone's fortune ~ 의 운을 점치다




Today, Gerthel Davis opened a bank account and made 50 dollars. If she goes over her son’s test scores, she’ll get 25 dollars. And if she takes her son to the doctor: 200 dollars. The Davises are one of 5000 low-income families enrolled in a new social experiment spearheaded and partly funded by New York’s billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

bank account : 은행계좌
ex. open a bank account 은행계좌를 개설하다
go over : 건너다 , 넘다 , ( 비용이 ) 초과하다 , ( 연설·유머 등이 ) 받아들여지다, 주의 깊게 조사하다, 점검하다(check up on), 복습하다, 반복해서 연습하다, 되풀이 해서 생각하다 [메모참고]
enroll : vt.,vi. 등록하다[시키다] (register)
* enrol at: Andrew cannot enrol at his local school because the class is full.
* enrol someone in/on something: Isabelle enrolled her brother in a training programme for engineers.
spearhead : 창끝 , 선봉 , 돌격대의 선두 , ( 공격 사업의 ) 선두에 서다 , 앞장서다
fund : 기금, 자금, ~ 자금을 제공하다


※ go over : 건너다 , 넘다 , ( 비용이 ) 초과하다 , ( 연설·유머 등이 ) 받아들여지다, 주의 깊게 조사하다, 점검하다(check up on), 복습하다, 반복해서 연습하다, 되풀이 해서 생각하다
ex. The proposal didn't go over. 그 제안은 받아들여지지 않았다. / ex. Last night's performance went over very well.
* go over with: ex. How did the news go over with your parents? 부모님들이 그 뉴스에 어떤 반응을 보이셨니?
ex. Could you go over this report and correct any mistakes?
ex. Sue's going to help me go over my lines for the play. / ex. My mind was going over the curious events at Ingard House. (to repeat a series of things or think about them again in order to understand them completely )




These people will now be paid for doing lots of small things, like getting a library card and attending school regularly, that can make a big difference.
-- Some people look at this and say, "Whoa! You’re paying people to do what they should be doing anyway."
-- Yeah, absolutely. Now what’s the question? Your statement of fact is correct, but that doesn’t make it wrong. What is clear is these people aren’t doing what we’d like them to do. And so, if the only ways you can get them to do it is by paying them, is that better or worse than not having them do it at all?

make a difference : 차이를 낳다, 영향을 미치다 , 중요하다 /to have an important effect on something, especially a good effect
ex. make a difference to: This scheme will certainly make a difference to the way I do my job.
ex. make a big/a great deal of/a lot of difference: The fact that I can now organize my own time makes a big difference.
ex. make all the difference (to someone): Having someone to talk to made all the difference to my mother.
* make no/little difference : to not be important or not have any effect
ex. The news made little difference to his plans.




It may, in fact, be worse, say some conservatives.
-- It’s wrong to teach a parent that the reason that he or she follows his child’s education is because[that] it will provide an immediate payoff of 25 or 50 bucks. He should do that because it’s in his child’s interest.

conservative : 보수적인 (opp. progressive 진보적인 ), 보수적인 사람
immediate : 즉각의, 당장의, 즉시의, 바로 옆 [ 이웃 ] 의 , 인접한
payoff : 1. 혜택 , 이득 (advantage or benefit) ex. If such materials became generally available to the optics industry, the payoffs from such a breakthrough would be enormous. 2. 뇌물(bribe) 3. A payoff is a large payment made to someone by their employer when the person has been forced to leave their job. ex. The ousted chairman received a $1.5 million payoff from the loss-making oil company.
* pay off : 1. ( 빚을 ) 다 갚다 , 2. 이익을 가져오다 , 성과를 거두다 , 수지맞다 / If something you have done pays off, it is successful
ex. All her hard work paid off in the end, and she finally passed the exam.
ex. It pays off to manage your Information.
be in one's interest : ~에게 이익이다




Bloomberg says the government pays people and businesses to do things all the time, for example, tax breaks that encourage people to go to college or buy a home.
-- The incentives of using capitalism have worked at other levels, and nobody complains about that. Why not use those incentives to do the same thing here? Bloomberg does not guarantee that this program will succeed.

tax break : 세제혜택 = tax benefit
* tax credit : 세액공제 / * tax relief 세금감면 ( 혜택 ) / the system of allowing someone not to pay tax on a part of their income
* tax return 세금 신고 ( 서 ) / income tax return 소득세 신고 ( 서 ) / * tax rebate 세금환급
capitalism : 자본주의 (체제)
ex. financial[finance] capitalism 금융 자본주의 / ex. industrial[commercial] capitalism 산업[상업] 자본주의


※동격의 of
The idea that he is a billionaire never occurred to me.
 (the idea와 that절은 동격)
The idea of his being a billionaire never occurred to me.
 (the idea와 of구는 동격)
이처럼 A of B에서 A의 내용을 B가 나타내 줄 때 이때 of를 동격의 of라고 합니다. 




-- It’s interesting to hear you say you have no idea whether this is going to work.
-- If you go in…to…and only do the things that you’re sure will work, you will never do anything.
Given that poverty persists in this, the wealthiest nation on the planet, the mayor says shame on us if we don’t try something new. Dan Harris, ABC News, New York.

given : 주어진 , 정해진 , 기정의 , 지정된 , 일정한, ~ 을 고려하면 , ~ 가 주어진다면  [메모참고]
persist : 고집하다 , 우기다 , ( 계속 ) 주장하다 ((in)), 지속하다 (last)
ex. They are determined to persist with their campaign.
* persist in doing something: Why do you persist in denying that it was your fault?
planet : 행성
* the planet : the planet Earth and everyone and everything on it: used, for example, when you are talking about the environment
ex. policies to protect the future of the planet
shame : 부끄러움 , 수치심 , 창피 , vt. 부끄러워하게 하다 , 에게 창피를 주다 (a. shameful)
* Shame on you! 부끄러운 줄 알아라 . 창피한 줄 알아라 . /* public shaming 공개적 망신 , 공개적 모욕
ex. He was shamed before the whole school. 그는 모든 학생들 앞에서 창피당했다
ex. His example shamed me into working hard. 그의 모범에 나는 부끄러워져서 열심히 일하게 되었다
* be [feel] ashamed of~ : ~을 부끄러워하다, 창피해하다 ex. He's extremely ashamed of his behaviour last night.
* be ashamed to do~ ~ 하는 것이 부끄러워[창피해] 하지 못하다 ex. He was ashamed to tell his family what had happened.
* I'm ashamed to say/admit : used for admitting something that you think people might be surprised or disappointed about
ex. I'm ashamed to admit that I've never read any of her work.
* ashamed (that): ex. I felt ashamed that I hadn't visited her more often.


※ given : 주어진 , 정해진 , 기정의 , 지정된 , 일정한, ~ 을 고려하면 , ~ 가 주어진다면  [메모참고]
ex. meet at a given time and place 약속된 시간과 장소에서 만나다
ex. within a given period 일정 기간 내에
* any given moment 아무때나 , 항시
ex. on any given morning more than 100 million Americans reach for a cup of coffee.
ex. Given their inexperience, they've done a good job.
= Given that they're inexperienced, they've done a good job.
ex. Given the same treatment again, he is sure to get well. 다시 한 번 그 치료를 더 받는다면 그는 반드시 회복될 것이다 .

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