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Poverty as an Adverse Childhood Experience

Michelle Hughes and Whitney Tucker
North Carolina Medical Journal March 2018, 79 (2) 124-126; DOI: https://doi.org/10.18043/ncm.79.2.124
Michelle Hughes
executive director, NC Child: The Voice for North Carolina's Children, Raleigh, North Carolina
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Whitney Tucker
research director, NC Child: The Voice for North Carolina's Children, Raleigh, North Carolina
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