[color="Sienna"]America's Poorest County is 90% Unemployed Red Indians

[color="DarkRed"]As usual you can't make an Injun' work - they've been on the federal dole so long all they know is alcohol and staying drunk! All they seem to imagine alternatively are casinos, bingo parlors and selling cheap cigarettes...

Without a viable private sector, [color="DarkRed"]federal money permeates every part of life here. The federal government pays for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Indian Education and the Indian Health Service, three of the reservation's largest employers. Businesses rely on the federal money that comes into the reservation.

There's almost nothing harder to find in winter than a job. This is America's [color="DarkRed"]poorest county, where more than [color="DarkRed"]60 percent of people live at or [color="DarkRed"]below the poverty line.
At a time when the weak economy is squeezing communities across the nation, recently released census figures show that nowhere are the numbers as bad as here -- a county with 2,500 residents, most of them Cheyenne River Sioux[color="DarkRed"] Indians living on a reservation.
In the coldest months of the year, when seasonal construction work disappears and the South Dakota prairie freezes, [color="DarkRed"]unemployment among the Sioux can hit 90 percent.

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