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  "id": 16746684,
  "title": "Growing up poor does not automatically shape how politicians understand inequality, study finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/growing-up-poor-does-not-automatically-shape-how-politicians",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-27T12:20:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-poor-automatically-politicians-inequality.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A politician who grew up in poverty might be expected to see inequality differently from someone raised in comfort. But a new study finds that personal experience does not speak for itself: what matters is how politicians interpret the struggles they lived through.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}