Being poor is mentally taxing. Which bill is more urgent? will I be evicted? will my kids have food next week? Your IQ test performance suffers if your head is

Being poor is mentally taxing. Which bill is more urgent? will I be evicted? will my kids have food next week? Your IQ test performance suffers if your head is filled with such worries. Drive your family in a car on a twisty narrow mountain side road and try to complete an IQ test in the allowed time at the same time -- would your IQ test performance suffer? Mine certainly would.