The trauma of poverty,

The author asserts that the US poverty research and policy agenda needs to “look squarely at the trauma of
poverty, its sadness, without reducing people to their hardship alone” (Desmond, 2015, p. 9)Then, in the last
few paragraphs of the article, Desmond provides an anecdote of a woman showing compassion and generosity
to a boy experiencing hunger, despite experiencing poverty and adversity herself. In your own words, explain
what it means for (a) US poverty research, and (b) policy agenda, to “look squarely at the trauma of poverty…
without reducing people to their hardship alone?"