This 30-page "report is part of the Urban Institute’s Low-Income Working Families project, a multiyear effort that focuses on the private-and public-sector contexts for families’ success or failure. Both contexts offer opportunities for better helping families meet their needs. The Low-Income Working Families project is currently supported by The Annie E. Casey Foundation."
"Children start life on unequal economic footing, and this has important implications for their future well-being. Poverty early in life has been linked to behavioral problems and lower IQ scores as early as age 5 (Duncan, Brooks-Gunn, and Klebanov 1994). It has also been linked with lower academic achievement than poverty experienced in later childhood and adolescence (Brooks-Gunn and Duncan 1997; Duncan et al. 1998). Children born into poor families have worse adolescent and adult outcomes than children born into nonpoor families (Ratcliffe and McKernan 2010). Chronic stress is a contributing factor in the link between childhood poverty and lower levels of working memory (Evans and Schamberg 2009)...."
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412659-Child-Poverty-and-Its-Lasting-Consequence-Paper.pdf
Published September 2012.
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