poverty trap

situation in which one is unable to improve one's income because one depends on state benefits that are reduced as one's earnings increase 贫困陷阱（受政府津贴者因工资增加而津贴减少, 无法改善经济状况）.

potter's wheel, potterer, pottery, potting-shed, potty, pouch, pouffe (also pouf), poulterer, poultice, poultry, pounce, pound, poundage, pounder, pounding, pour, pout, poutingly, poverty, poverty line, poverty-stricken, POW, powder, powder blue, powder-keg, powder-magazine, powder-puff (also puff), powder-room, powdery, power, power cut, power house, power line, power politics, power-boat, power-dive, power-point, power-station (US `power plant), powered, powerful,