NOUN
- a situation in which an increase in income results in a loss of benefits so that you are no better off
How To Use poverty trap In A Sentence
- For families in the poverty trap this was a year of suffering with increased rentals driving families to share houses in overcrowded conditions and stress making more families dysfunctional.
- The poverty trap would become a demographic trap.
- The gap between rich and poor has widened and Brenda has seen people suddenly move from comfortable middle class lives to the poverty trap through redundancy or illness.
- He's caught in the poverty trap and will only be five pounds a week better off if he accepts the job.
- At the other extreme we have the poverty trap that makes it uneconomic to take a low-paid job. Times, Sunday Times
- This results in a downward spiral into a poverty trap, which is an unfair burden on the youth of today. Times, Sunday Times
- In many cases work is a passport to regular food, a decent education and a chance to break out of the poverty trap.
- At the same time, however, the city has a solid, and seemingly intractable core of families caught in the poverty trap, living on benefits, untrained and unequipped for the job market.
- This results in a downward spiral into a poverty trap, which is an unfair burden on the youth of today. Times, Sunday Times
- Caught in the poverty trap, they are unable to save money for business ventures.
