In the latest, Winter 2011 issue of Pathways, a magazine on poverty, inequality, and social policy from the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, scholars examine poverty and the effects of deprivation on blood, the brain, and the body.
In the research brief The Long Reach of Early Childhood Poverty, Dr. Greg Duncan of UC-Irvine and Dr. Katherine Magnuson or UW-Madison, review the evidence linking early childhood poverty to long-lasting consequences and dicsuss strategies to combat the effects of poverty-induced stress on vulnerable families with young children.
Also included in this edition of Pathways is Dr. Jack Shankoff’s article Building a Foundation on the Science of Early Childhood Development describing how poverty literally does get under the skin by harming the cognitive development of children exposed to poverty. Dr. Shankoff, Director of the Center of the Developing Child at Harvard, also explores what we can do to break the entrenched cycle of poverty.
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