welfare trap
English
WOTD – 9 November 2015
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Noun
welfare trap (plural welfare traps)
- (chiefly US) A situation where the welfare system discourages people who receive government public assistance payments from entering low-paid work because such work does not produce a significant income increase.
- 1982 Aug. 23, Robert Pear, "Getting tougher on work rules for food stamps," New York Times (retrieved 9 Nov 2015):
- Mr. Hayakawa said there was "a class of able-bodied persons who would rather collect public assistance than take jobs". . . . Cutting off food stamp benefits to these people, he said, would remove a disincentive to work, "close off one of the doors into the welfare trap."
- 1982 Aug. 23, Robert Pear, "Getting tougher on work rules for food stamps," New York Times (retrieved 9 Nov 2015):
Synonyms
- (chiefly UK) unemployment trap
Related terms
- inactivity trap
Translations
situation
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