South Dakota leads nation with Native Americans in poverty

This story was filed on February 22, 2013

South Dakota leads the nation in the percentage of Native Americans living below the poverty line, and more than half of the Native Americans in the state’s second largest city live in poverty, according to new U.S. Census data released Wednesday.read more

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