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Edward Zigler, PhD; Sally J. Styfco

JAMA. 2001;285:2378-2380.

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Children raised in poverty can do well in school and later in life, but they face many more obstacles than children reared in wealthier homes.¹ The more obstacles the individual child faces, the greater the likelihood he or she will not achieve success in elementary school. Today 4 million, or more than 1 in 5, US children younger than 6 years live in poverty²; the associated risks also affect the large number of near-poor children whose family incomes place them above the artificial poverty index.³ The scope of the problem has changed little since 1964 when an all-out War on Poverty was declared by President Lyndon Johnson. As the nation's leaders pondered the causes and cures for poverty, Johnson's antipoverty chief, Sargent Shriver, offered his observation that the children of the poor were ill-prepared when they entered school. Starting with this disadvantage, they . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

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