A Framework for Understanding Poverty Sixth Revised Edition: A Cognitive Approach for Educators, Policymakers, Employers, and Service Providers

New Chapters on the Brain, Intersectionality, and Parents

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With a view through an economic lens that has only become sharper and more focused since its initial publication in 1995, Framework's premise is unchanged: Middle-class understandings of children and adults in poverty are often ill-suited for connecting with people in poverty and helping them build up the resources to rise out of poverty and into self-sufficiency.

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