单词 | poverty trap |
释义 | > as lemmaspoverty trap poverty trap n. British a situation in which an increase in a person's income is offset by a consequent loss of state benefits, leaving him or her no better off. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poverty with dependence on public relief > poverty trap poverty trap1972 1972 Times 16 Feb. 4/2 One of the underlying causes of the dispute was the deep sense of frustration felt by hundreds of thousands of workers that they were increasingly caught in a poverty trap from which they could not escape without disproportionately large wage increases. 1980 J. A. Pechman in R. E. Caves & L. B. Krause Britain's Econ. Performance 219 Those who are beneficiaries of the welfare system or receive social security or unemployment benefits are subject to the highest marginal tax rates, creating a ‘poverty trap’, which is the subject of great concern in the United Kingdom. 1996 W. Hutton State we're In (rev. ed.) viii. 196 Before the insistence that there should be no disincentives to work, no poverty traps, no excessive tax burdens and all the rest, the defenders of the status quo quailed. < as lemmas |
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