Poverty Impacts a Child's Future the Most in Early Childhood

A new study finds that the effects of poverty in early childhood is more harmful than poverty in adolescence. As the children who took part in the study became adults, they were more likely to become overweight, the men were twice as likely to be arrested, and the women were six times as likely to have a child out of wedlock before the age of 21. These adults also worked 451 less hours than their more affluent childhood peers.