This is your brain on poverty: Sanders and Warren probe insidious consequences of being poor

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/21/elizabeth-warren-americans-waste-far-too-much-money-treating-people-after-they-become-sick/




While most Americans think of poverty in material terms, said the senate’s lone independent, its effects were more insidious and long-lasting.

The U.S. Senate subcommittee on primary health and aging met Wednesday morning to discuss the effects of poverty and stress on children, communities and health in America.

“Stress and poverty, wondering how I’m going to feed my family tomorrow, pay my bills get the income I need to survive, takes a toll on human life,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

Recent studies have shown that stress caused by poverty can influence brain development in children and lay the groundwork for physical health problems that show up later in life.

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1. That would be my dream ticket

right there. Sanders and Warren. Warren and Sanders either way works for me. Throw Alan Grayson in as AG and I'd cream myself

[Laelth]

2. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

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3. kick

[Trillo]

4. I doubt being poor is "pursuit of happiness."

A phrase in the Declaration of Independence.