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07/13/2015

Toxic Stress of Poverty

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

A growing body of research shows that the stress of growing up in poverty can have long-term effects on children's brains and cognitive development.  How can so-called "toxic stress" be prevented?  NewsHour's Megan Thompson reports in their latest story from the continuing public media series Chasing the Dream.

[Note:  We apologize that there is a commercial at the outset of this excellent PBS video.]


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