From my view, the title of this article, “Poverty is Poison” summarizes it rather well.  The article states that neuroscientists have researched the stress factor of poverty.  The article states that a child in poverty experiences such a large amount of stress hormones that it impairs their neural development, which makes it harder to escape poverty when the child grows up.
Paul Krugman, the writer of this article, then goes on to explain, “America’s failure to make progress in reducing poverty, especially among children, should provoke a lot of soul-searching. Unfortunately, what it often seems to provoke instead is great creativity in making excuses.”  A general summary of the rest of the article is Paul explaining the many factors working against the many american citizens experiencing poverty.

“But ultimately, let’s hope that the nation turns back to the task it abandoned — that of ending the poverty that still poisons so many American lives.”