{"id":19368,"date":"2013-11-23T16:54:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T16:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theatlantic-your-brain-on-poverty-why-poor\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T20:17:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T03:17:43","slug":"theatlantic-your-brain-on-poverty-why-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theatlantic-your-brain-on-poverty-why-poor\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-19368 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theatlantic-your-brain-on-poverty-why-poor\/attachment\/19369\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mwopmmeov91qcokc4o1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theatlantic.tumblr.com\/post\/67798498123\/your-brain-on-poverty-why-poor-people-seem-to\">theatlantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2013\/11\/your-brain-on-poverty-why-poor-people-seem-to-make-bad-decisions\/281780\/\"><strong>Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In August, <em>Science<\/em> published a landmark study concluding that poverty, itself, hurts our ability to make decisions about school, finances, and life, imposing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/jobs-and-economy\/2013\/08\/how-poverty-taxes-brain\/6716\/\">a\u00a0mental burden similar to losing 13 IQ points.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was widely seen as a counter-argument to claims that poor people are \u201cto blame\u201d for bad decisions and a rebuke to policies that withhold money from the poorest families unless they behave in a certain way. After all, if being poor leads to bad decision-making (as opposed to the other way around), then giving cash should alleviate the cognitive burdens of poverty, all on its own.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, science doesn\u2019t stick without a proper anecdote, and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/killermartinis.kinja.com\/why-i-make-terrible-decisions-or-poverty-thoughts-1450123558\">Why I Make Terrible Decisions<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0a comment published on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/killermartinis.kinja.com\/why-i-make-terrible-decisions-or-poverty-thoughts-1450123558\">Gawker<\/a>&lsquo;s\u00a0Kinja platform by a person in poverty, is a devastating illustration of the <em>Science<\/em> study.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2013\/11\/your-brain-on-poverty-why-poor-people-seem-to-make-bad-decisions\/281780\/\"><strong>Read more.<\/strong><\/a> <em>[Image: Reuters]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theatlantic: Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions In August, Science published a landmark study concluding that poverty, itself, hurts our ability to make decisions about school, finances, and life, imposing a\u00a0mental burden similar to losing 13 IQ points.\u00a0 It was widely seen as a counter-argument to claims that poor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-52o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19370,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19368\/revisions\/19370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}