We have known for many years that poverty is bad for children, but why is that? A principal reason for poverty’s adverse impacts on children is because of the confluence of physical and psychosocial risks that disadvantaged children must regularly contend with, says presenter Dr. Gary Evans. He will review descriptive data from a wide range of studies, will document the panoply of risks that low SES children endure, and provide an in-depth look at a longitudinal research program designed to investigate the role of cumulative risk exposure in conveying poverty’s ill effects on human development.