What can I do next?

We hope you have been challenged and inspired to think about how you can engage with your learning community to address poverty.

Below are some of the things you can do right now.

Assess Your Action Steps

Improve your practices for students and families facing scarcity.

Additional Resources

Books

Scarcity: The New Science Of Having Less And How It Defines Our Lives, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir. (Henry Holt and Co., 2013)

White Paper

Poverty Interrupted: Applying Behavioral Science to the Context of Chronic Scarcity, Daminger, Hayes, Barrows, and Wright (ideas42, 2015)

Articles

“Does Scarcity Make You Dumb? A behavioral understanding of how scarcity diminishes our decision making and control,” by Monahan, Cotteleer, and Fisher (Deloitte’s Center for Integrated Research, 2016)

“Rich Brain Poor Brain,” Robert Sapolsky, Los Angeles Times (2013)

“Your Brain on Poverty,” by Derek Thompson, The Atlantic (2013)

“The Science of Scarcity,” by Cara Feinberg, Harvard Magazine (2015)

“Poverty is All About Personal Stress, Not Laziness,” by Noah Smith, Bloomberg (2020)

“The High Cost of Not Having Enough,” by Emily Badger, CityLab (2013)