What Poverty Does to the Young Brain

Ostrander-What-Poverty-Does-to-the-Young-Brain-800Click Here to Read: What Poverty Does to the Young Brain by Madeline Ostrander in The New Yorker on June 4, 2015.

For a growing child, deprivation and stress can become a kind of neurotoxin.

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