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I wish every american understood the insights in this article :
http://theunboundedspirit.com/how-poverty-taxes-the-brain/See Link…..”In a series of experiments run by researchers at Princeton, Harvard, and the University of Warwick, low-income people who were primed to think about financial problems performed poorly on a series of cognition tests, saddled with a mental load that was the equivalent of losing an entire night’s sleep. Put another way, the condition of poverty imposed a mental burden akin to losing 13 IQ points, or comparable to the cognitive difference that’s been observed between chronic alcoholics and normal adults….” – See more at: http://theunboundedspirit.com/how-poverty-taxes-the-brain/#sthash.C0ekN2dE.dpuf
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