"The authors posit that poverty consumes cognitive resources, including attention, executive control, and working memory, and thereby impairs decision-making"

"The authors posit that poverty consumes cognitive resources, including attention, executive control, and working memory, and thereby impairs decision-making" Poverty really hurts my soul to see. I talk about the homeless and drug addicted a lot. If there was something I could do that I would be certain would help in a large scale, I would 100% devote some time to it. In Canada, I'm glad to see that people living in poverty dropped from 15% of the population to 8% [1]. In 2011, having considered living in my car but being taken in by some friends instead, I'd like to add I have long lasting resentment that takes some chunk of my thinking always. [1] https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/topics-start/poverty https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/topics-start/poverty