How Poverty Changes Your Brain
Worrying about money can put a strain on you in the short-term, but new research shows that living in poverty can affect you for life. How Do Food Stamps Work?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n...
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When you're poor, it can be hard to go grab a cheeseburger, or buy the newest video game, but that's not the worst part. The tough part is that even if you get rich, the effects of poverty stick with you. As of 2011, the World Bank estimates 17 percent of people lived at or below a dollar twenty five a day -- that's just over a billion people. In 1981 it was closer to 2 billion, so we’re making progress[1]! In 2013, the official poverty rate in the U.S. was 14.5 percent -- totalling around 45.3 million poor people in the wealthiest country in the world[2]. Governments worldwide are fighting poverty in a number of ways, and not just because it's the right thing to do, science says poverty actually HARMS you. A 2013 study published in Sc...
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When you're poor, it can be hard to go grab a cheeseburger, or buy the newest video game, but that's not the worst part. The tough part is that even if you get rich, the effects of poverty stick with you. As of 2011, the World Bank estimates 17 percent of people lived at or below a dollar twenty five a day -- that's just over a billion people. In 1981 it was closer to 2 billion, so we’re making progress[1]! In 2013, the official poverty rate in the U.S. was 14.5 percent -- totalling around 45.3 million poor people in the wealthiest country in the world[2]. Governments worldwide are fighting poverty in a number of ways, and not just because it's the right thing to do, science says poverty actually HARMS you. A 2013 study published in Sc...
