Poverty and Brain Function
According to The USA Today:
A new study finds that certain brain functions of some low-income 9- and 10-year-olds pale in comparison with those of wealthy children and that the difference is almost equivalent to the damage from a stroke.
This from a study to be published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience this year. This raises some important questions in political philosophy, and should cause us to seriously question certain free market conceptions of justice that presume a level playing field. It’s too early to know what these results really mean, but this is an area that certainly deserves some attention.