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Poverty trap   /pˈɑvərti træp/   Listen
Poverty trap

noun
1.
A situation in which an increase in income results in a loss of benefits so that you are no better off.





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"Poverty trap" Quotes from Famous Books



... laws and regulations on which more than $132 billion was spent in 1985. I will propose a new national welfare strategy, a program of welfare reform through State-sponsored, community-based demonstration projects. This is the time to reform this outmoded social dinosaur and finally break the poverty trap. Now, we will never abandon those who, through no fault of their own, must have our help. But let us work to see how many can be freed from the dependency of welfare and made self-supporting, which the great majority of welfare ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various


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