How Income Inequality Is Literally Screwing With Your Head

[GoLeft TV]

Scientists have discovered a link between income inequality and low test scores among adolescents. Past studies have shown that there is about a 20 percent gap in test scores between low-income students and middle income students. The most recent data shows that this gap in test scores is the direct result of the income gap between the classes.

Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

[jtuck004]

1. I hate break this to y'all, but we discovered this like C. Columbus discovered America.

More like we keep tripping over it but are too fucking stupid to learn from it.

Just to go back to WW!, we found that kids who come from families with no money and food are malnourished, and the gaps in their development, whether physical or mental, can sometimes be dealt with, but can NEVER be recovered as it would have been had their development not been burglarized.

And there is plenty of evidence before that which shows that once gone it never comes back.

Never.

Thieving wealthy bastards - and their lapdogs in politics and business without whom they could do nothing - stole it.

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. Also, struggling to make ends meet, living on the edge between full out poverty and abundance

causes consistent trauma, which can lead to lower test scores. Children cannot concentrate at school when parents are working too many hours (no time or money for vacation or family time), under constant stress and exhaustion (which can lead to abuse), and parents fighting as a result of the lack of money.

http://education.jhu.edu/PD/newhorizons/strategies/topics/Keeping%20Fit%20for%20Learning/stress.html

[TBF]

3. Less nutritious diet, lack of enrichment activities

Can't afford the fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grains
Can't afford the enrichment activities, or even have time for daily reading if you are working 2 jobs, etc...
Quality childcare is very expensive
More likely to get illnesses if not eating better foods
Some neighborhoods even difficult to get fresh air if you can't play outside

So many reasons and it all makes sense. Maybe people will get mad enough to fight back if they realize regressive republican policy is not only hurting them - but also killing the chance of their children having a future.

[daleanime]

4. K&R.....

[passiveporcupine]

5. We think we are so damned smart

But we never learn from history, do we.

[panfluteman]

6. This Video Just Skims the Tip of the Iceberg Regarding Its Subject!

The nutritional angle is but only one of the many, many factors to consider, although it is the most obvious and visible - and maybe also the one that it is easiest to do something about - with school nutrition programs, and the like. But even for that, we gotta get money out of politics! When I met Sam, my best friend here in Romania, on the train ride back to Bucharest from Sofia, on the last leg of a return trip from India, he complained that the severe austerity and scarcity of food in the last days of the Ceausescu regime had stunted children's brain development. And I'm sure that Romania's case is not unique in the annals of world history.

But what about all the myriad possible ways in which the wealth and income gap plays out psychologically??? The psychological dimension of this problem just might be the most insidious and pervasive part of it, like the invisible, or scarcely visible, part of the iceberg beneath the water's surface...

[Marrah_G]

7. Poverty changes you

It changes how you think, your moods, your stress level, your sleep patterns, everything.