Pay has always been the biggest deterrent, as people with families often feel they cannot afford the drop in salary when moving to a university job.

工资一直是最大的威慑因素，因为有家庭的人往往觉得，当他们找一份大学工作时，他们担负不起薪水的下降。

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Transportationcosts women 50 percent more than men because they must ride in covered vehicles—and many cannot afford to pay.

女性的交通支出比男性高出50%，因为她们必须乘坐带顶棚的车辆，而且很多女性付不起费用。

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Is it that homeowners cannot afford to pay; or is it that they are declining to do so, because their homes are now worth less than their mortgages, the phenomenon known as negative equity?

其原因是房产人付不起贷款；还是因为其房屋价值现在低于贷款金额(即我们熟知的负资产现象)，户主拒绝还贷？

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"People living without heating because they cannot afford to pay the bills, people not leaving their homes because they cannot afford transport, people whose homes are becoming unsafe to live in because they cannot afford basic repairs, " she said.

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Borrowers find themselves chained to low-paying jobs that offer little in the way of advancement, because they cannot afford to wait till the right job comes along for fear of running of usurious penalty charges if they cannot afford to pay their bills for several months.

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Their credit-card debt has declined, most likely because many millennials cannot get a credit card, and in part because they know they cannot afford to spend now and pay back later.

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