Feature Channels: Poverty

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Poverty in early childhood appears to be associated with smaller brain volumes measured through imaging at school age and early adolescence, according to a study published by JAMA Pediatrics, a JAMA Network publication.

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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified changes in the brains of children growing up in poverty. Those changes can lead to lifelong problems like depression, learning difficulties and limitations in the ability to cope with stress. But the study showed that the extent of those changes was influenced strongly by whether parents were attentive and nurturing.

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New supplemental themed issue discusses homelessness and public health, taking on topics ranging from housing interventions, to Affordable Care Act, to homeless veterans.

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Poverty coupled with stress have long-lasting effects on brain function, according to a study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Washington University Professor Gautam N. Yadama and photographer Mark Katzman are taking issue of energy impoverishment to a broader audience with the publication of "Fires, Fuel and the Fate of 3 Billion: The State of the Energy Impoverished" (Oxford University Press 2013), a 152-page collection of photos and essays that tell an eye-opening, insightful story about energy access in the rural villages of India.

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Mixed-income neighborhoods help improve the safety and wellbeing of low-income residents, but cannot relieve deeply entrenched poverty or provide upward mobility without additional social services and supports, say Peabody and University of Chicago researchers.