The first study in the United States to assess the impact of poverty reduction on family life and infant and toddlers’ cognitive, emotional, and brain development
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Why Does the Richest Country in the World Have So Many Poor Kids? (Ep. 475)
by Stephen J. Dubner
Produced by Mary Diduch
September 15, 2021
Trauma Disrupts Children’s Brains — but Researchers Are Finding New Ways Help Them Heal
September 24, 2020
July 11, 2020
Low-Income Moms In Four U.S. Cities Are Being Paid $4,000 A Year, With No Strings Attached
By Leslie Albrecht
June 8, 2019
100 Low-Income NYC Moms Will Get $13,320 To Participate In Child Development Study
By Summer Delaney
May 9, 2019
By Tom Kertscher
May 8, 2019
Can an Extra $333 a Month Improve a Baby’s Brain? A Research Team Wants to Know
By Leslie Brody
April 29, 2019
Baby's First Years Lead Neuroscientist, Dr. Kimberly Noble, Discusses The Study's Background
April 2, 2019
The Neuroscience of Inequality: Does Poverty Show Up In Children’s Brains
By Mike Mariani
July 13, 2017
Comment La Pauvrete Maltreaite Le Cerveau. [How Poverty Mistreats The Brain]
By Sandrine Cabut
March 13, 2017
New Brain Science Shows Poor Kids Have Smaller Brains than Affluent Kids
By Lyndsey Layton
April 15, 2015
Live Interview (20:20-22:55)
March 31, 2015
Brain Development in Children could be Affected by Poverty, Study Shows
By Ian Sample
March 30, 2015
