poverty trap
贫困陷阱,贫穷的陷阱,贫穷陷阱,贫困的陷阱
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- : 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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Getting men to do their share of care and domestic work is a key overlooked strategy in reducing poverty.
It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time.
The losers have always been children in poverty, children of color, and children with disabilities.
Nor do these studies address the structural and systematic issues that contribute to obesity, such as poverty and stress.
But Reconcile is from a slightly different arm of Houston hip-hop—more focused on spiritual triumph over the trap.
And our views of poverty and social betterment, or what is possible and what is not, are still largely conditioned by it.
In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.
He passed the latter part of his life in poverty, and towards the close of it, was confined in a madhouse.
Seen thus poverty became rather a blessing than a curse, or at least a dispensation prescribing the proper lot of man.
Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.