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Re:Poverty, not trauma, affects cognitive function in refuge... by pmiller2 on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @06:58PM (#22872497)
In other words, the submission title is misleading: the effects of poverty are type of trauma. We're not talking about "too poor to afford the latest game console" here; we're talking about people who have trouble with things at the lower levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs [0].

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

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