Poverty is a pervasive issue across the United States that has a long-lasting impact on not only child outcomes but adult health outcomes and national economic outcomes.

Our goal is to :

1) Explain how detrimental poverty can be to infant development in a myriad of ways.

2) Provide examples of existing policies that support infants in poverty.

3) Motivate policymakers to prioritize alleviating the effect of poverty on infant development.