Overall, 6.8 million people continue to receive jobless aid.

总体而言，680万人继续接受失业救济。

Well, apparently, these food banks are a great meeting place for people who are lonely and depressed. The food bank volunteers then talk to the people who use them.

显然，食品银行为那些孤独、困窘的人们提供了一个很好的聚集点。在食品银行工作的也会与来这里接受救济的人们交谈。

The recipients are on it like every time who are exclusively high school and college students.

虽然平台上的救济接受仅仅是高中和大学。

If a doctor or a social worker thinks someone needs to use a food bank – even for a short time – they can give them vouchers.

如果医或社会工作认为某人需要接受食品银行的救济，哪怕只是短时间的救济，他们会出具一份证明。

Yeah, it does. Well, today's question is about the people who use the food banks.

是的，的确。今天的问题是关于去食品银行接受救济的人的。

The unemployed who benefited from public relief tended to remain unemployed.

接受公共救济的失业往往继续保持失业状态。

The Local Government Act of 1929 effectively abolished the Poor Law, which had kept recipients of state relief in harsh workhouses and transferred responsibility for payments to local councils.

1929年的《地方政府法》实际上废除了《济贫法》，该法律曾将接受国家救济的人关在条件恶劣的济贫院里， 并将支付责任转移到地方议会。

So you either comply with the strings or the orders or the edicts or you lose your dole.

因此，你若接受救济，便会失去某种独立性，因为提供救济的实体会附加条件。你要么遵从这些条件、命令或法令，要么就会失去救济。

The recipients of poor relief and of unemployment relief know that the state is there to assist them, but only if they remain poor or unemployed and unable to help themselves.

接受贫困救济和失业救济的人明白， 国家会在那里帮助他们，但前提是他们必须保持贫困或失业状态， 无法自更。