Poverty Trap - Introduction Usually, people argue that poverty can be overcame working hard. In other words, poverty happens when someone is not working enough. It seems an easy argue and repeat that is usual as well. However, what science indicates us? First of all, social scientists, economists, psychologists, neuroscientists and so on, have dedicate a lot of effort to investigate what cause poverty and, beyond, what make people follow in poverty, the last one is the so called “poverty trap”. In the next posts I will argue why common sense is wrong, I will point out that poverty overcame is not easy and depends on many variables and these are not in the individual control, thus public policy is essential to deal with poverty.