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Poverty Trap
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1. poverty trap
a situation in which an increase in income results in a loss of benefits so that you are no better off
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Poverty Trap
see synonyms of poverty trapnoun
the situation of being unable to escape poverty because of being dependent on state benefits, which are reduced by the same amount as any extra income gained
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