Sentence examples for the poverty trap from inspiring English sources

It's demoralising; people get locked in the poverty trap".

My reason was to escape the poverty trap.

(India Today) In The Hindustan Times, economist Jean Dreze writes on the "poverty trap" in India.

If you think there's a puritanical tone to MacGowan's views, well... "No, I escaped the poverty trap when I was pissed out of my head!" Ah, yes, the poverty trap.

Within the week they're broke slum-dwellers, struggling to feed their young kids and sliding into the poverty trap.

He's an admirable example of the person most needed in rural Africa in its drive to escape the poverty trap.

The charity said the unpaid tax could go a long way towards helping "rescue millions from the poverty trap".

If those in power are serious about the poverty trap, they should be serious about not setting it up in the first place.

*immigrant families - particularly from Portugal, Pakistan or Bangladesh – are more likely to see education as a route out of the poverty trap.

"No single person can propel this country out of the poverty trap," says Debapriya Bhattacharya, of the Centre for Policy Dialogue.

Re "Prison and the Poverty Trap" (Feb. 19): The article shows that the war on drugs has harmed people like Carl Harris on two levels.