Poverty Does To Kids Brains: Article Analysis

Poverty, this is word million of Americans know first hand. Issues of Poverty has been the center of social problems since the mid-1960’s. The poor people of our nation are trying to find their way out of poverty, while the rich are developing ideas to improve the lives of their people. Poverty is a global issue that has yet to end. We live in a world of inevitable poverty, so I wanted to look further into this issue. The first article was called “The Changing Face of Poverty in America” by William Spriggs, it includes statistics that were astonishing. The article spoke about differences of men and women in poverty which brought a feminist approach to the article. It spoke about children, the elderly, and poverty of single parents. I found this article on Prospect.org. My second article was found on The Washington Post , it’s called “Map: How …show more content…
The article was very informative and straightforward in the statics towards their academic growth. The children used in the study were from two categories, participants that live below the poverty line and those who lived in middle class. The article stated, “Kid’s who came from families below the poverty line exhibited “systematic structural differences” in their brains, with 7-10 percent less gray matter in the three areas than those living above the poverty line”, this is was shocking to me. The researchers from Duke University and the University of Wisconsin Madison made these claims based on the near 400 hundred children they tracked during the course of six years. Seth Pollak a co-author made a claim towards these developmental changes. Pollak believes it is the “environmental circumstances of poverty” that is the cause. Some poor families don’t have the tools to help stimulate their child’s brain. Lurie used these statistics to show parents of a wealth the dangers of being