Ninety Feet Under: What poverty does to people

Ninety Feet Under--What Poverty Does to People identifies ninety major impacts of poverty on people, stressors that strike in total and all the time. All impacts are cited. The book was written in my own effort to find answers that plagued me as to why poverty has remained so resilient. By writing a list I began to understand that the problem has so many roots in disparate places that defy understanding, until I accepted the enormity of the whole assault on the mind and body. The causes I've identified are neurological, physiological, linguistic, and crammed with fear, cold and hunger. Included are stories of children and adults I knew, and how the impacts I've found deeply affect their lives.