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
- 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.
- Caught in the poverty trap, they are unable to save money for business ventures.
- Caught in the poverty trap, they are unable to save money for business ventures.
- This is the phenomenon generally known as the poverty trap.
- With appropriate training and support, many of these people could be provided with pathways out of the poverty traps that currently act as disincentives to finding work.
- Caught in the poverty trap, they are unable to make the savings necessary for business ventures.
- He's caught in the poverty trap and will only be five pounds a week better off if he accepts the job.
- Caught in the poverty trap, they are unable to save money for business ventures.
- 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.
