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Fri Dec 11, 2020 Jason D. Hill
121The dire conditions under which Native Americans live in the United States are pitiful. Statistics grow dated by the month. According to the American Community Survey, one in three Native Americans live in poverty with a median income of around $23,000 per year.
Self-proclaimed experts on Native American poverty such as sociologist Beth Redbird point out that despite heavy investments in education, up to 80% of Native Americans move back to their rural communities. Given that poverty tends to be higher in rural areas, the poverty gap between Native Americans who live in rural areas and urban areas is larger than the white rural and urban gap. The conclusion is that poverty is not driven by the propensity of Native Americans to live in rural areas.
Redbird concludes that amazing things would happen if Native
Americans had the same employment rates, occupations, levels of
education, lived in the same geographic locations and were in the same
types of white households as white Americans. She claims the payoff to
education is not nearly as great as the payoff to jobs. In other words,
if such conditions held, Native American poverty would decrease because
poverty could be reduced for the Indian-only population by nearly 20%
with employment.
She cites the abysmal failures of Native Americans to address their own economic development through tribal gaming and energy. Reports from the census show that when tribes started gaming establishments or energy projects that poverty rates did not decrease, and that few lasting jobs were created. In 2015 alone, casinos created about only 25 jobs, while energy had hardly any effect on reservations with more than 2,000 residents on average...................... .. To Read More..
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