Poverty Illustrated: Indian Reservations

New York Times—Poverty’s Poster Child  By Nicholas D. Kristof

This sprawling Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is a Connecticut-sized zone of prairie and poverty, where the have-nots are defined less by the money they lack than by suffocating hopelessness. In the national number line of inequality, people here represent the “other 1 percent,” the bottom of the national heap.  Read the entire article.