The Pine Ridge Reservation
in Shannon County South Dakota, is the poorest county in the United States:
- Average population 40,000 people
- 80% homeless - 50% under the age of 18
- Unemployment between 80-90%
- 1/3 homes without electricity/water
- Average die at age 45
- Infant mortality 20 times higher than national rate
- Diabetes is 10 times higher
- Five times the rate of cervical cancer
- Twice the rate of Heart Disease
- Four times the rate of TB
- Teen suicide four times the national rate
- 60% school drop out rate
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The Rosebud Reservation
in South Dakota is the sixth largest reservation in the country and is home to the people of the great chief Spotted Tail:
- Unemployment of 94.81% out of labor force of 16,117
- Majority of households are single parent homes
- 49.1% of all resident are under age 18
- 4th poorest county (Todd) in the United States
- 93% of Lakota children live below poverty line
- Less than 50% have access to transportation
- Fewer than 33% have telephone
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