poverty trap

Caught in the poverty trap, they are unable to make the savings necessary for business ventures.

There is no single point in the income scale where the poverty trap begins to operate.

It claimed 1.25 million people could be caught in the poverty trap.

"And the people are pushed into a poverty trap from which it's hard to escape."

This is the phenomenon generally known as the poverty trap.

The working poor's main problem is the poverty trap - the tax penalty that poor families face when they move from welfare to work.

To offer them a small loan can pick themselves up out of that poverty trap.

Before 1988 the implicit tax rates associated with the poverty trap were also, in some cases, greater than 100%.

Another source of inequality is the poverty trap in which too many European citizens find themselves.

Johnson later claimed that over 12 million Americans had been lifted from the poverty trap.