New study finds cash aid to low-income mothers increased infant brain activity

New study finds cash aid to low-income mothers increased infant brain activity
This May 17, 2021 image shows Margarita Mora preparing to drop off her daughter at Cuidando Los Ninos in Albuquerque, N.M. The charity provides housing, child care and financial counseling for mothers, all of whom will benefit from expanded Child Tax Credit payments that will start flowing in July to roughly 39 million households. Susan Montoya Bryan / AP Photo
New study finds cash aid to low-income mothers increased infant brain activity
This May 17, 2021 image shows Margarita Mora preparing to drop off her daughter at Cuidando Los Ninos in Albuquerque, N.M. The charity provides housing, child care and financial counseling for mothers, all of whom will benefit from expanded Child Tax Credit payments that will start flowing in July to roughly 39 million households. Susan Montoya Bryan / AP Photo

New study finds cash aid to low-income mothers increased infant brain activity

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What role does money play in child development? New research suggests it could affect brain activity.

Reset digs into the study and discusses the implications for policies and programs in the U.S. with one of the co-authors of the report and a local researcher.

GUESTS: Katherine Magnuson, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty and professor at the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

Dylan Bellisle, postdoctoral research fellow with the Project for Middle Class Renewal at the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign