Why some low-income neighborhoods are better than others
“Kids from poor neighborhoods that are beset by high rates of violence, incarceration and lead exposure earn less money, on average, in adulthood than equally poor children from less hazardous neighborhoods, researchers found. Children from these grittier neighborhoods are also more likely to become pregnant as teenagers or to be jailed in their 20s or 30s as children from less ‘toxic’ communities, the team reports April 1 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”