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A study reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sheds light on one of the enduring problems of society — that poor children underachieve later in life and thus remain poor themselves. According to researchers Gary Evans and Michelle Schamberg of Cornell University, the lack of achievement later in life of poor children is a result of reduced memory capacity, and the reduced memory capacity is caused by stresses they experience in their impoverished childhoods.

The researchers examined a number of factors that distinguish the experiences of poor children and middle class children — mother's age at birth, mother's level of education, mother's marital status, and the mother's own stress level. None of these factors were found to have an impact on children's memory capacity. Only stresses experienced by the child impacted brain development and, as a result, the capacity to hold items in memory.

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