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Also note this 66k accounts for about 18% of income. For comparison, Shannon County in South Dakota (ranked 3135) pays $922, or 4.5% of income. (There should

Also note this 66k accounts for about 18% of income. For comparison, Shannon County in South Dakota (ranked 3135) pays $922, or 4.5% of income. (There should probably be someone ranked 3144th, but Shannon seemed pretty close to the bottom...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_(United_States)#Statistics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_(United_States)#Statisti...

rosser 13y ago
Shannon County is the 48th poorest county in the US by household income, and the second poorest, after Buffalo County, SD, by per capita income. My brother used to work on an ambulance crew on the Pine Ridge reservation, which contains Shannon County. The poverty there is absolutely staggering, and absolutely heartbreaking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lowest-income_counties_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lowest-income_counties...