ideas427/8/2015

Cut the Costs: Poverty Interrupted

Anthony Hernandez
For the 45.3 million Americans who struggle to cover basic expenses, living in poverty is costly in terms of time, money, and cognition. Recent research by two of ideas42’s cofounders gives a name to the cognitive costs of poverty: a bandwidth tax, levied by the experience of scarcity. They find that lacking a key resource, […] The post Cut the Costs: Poverty Interrupted appeared first on ideas42 .