Some startling facts about the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation:

• 80% unemployment.
  
  
• Poorest county in the USA. Average family income is just $3,700 per year.
  
  
• High rates of alcoholism, heart disease, and cancer.
  
  
• Extremely high rate of diabetes. Almost half of the population over 40 on the Pine Ridge Reservation have diabetes.
  
  
• Life expectancy for men is 48 years.  Life expectancy for women is 52.
  
  
• Highest infant mortality rate in the USA.

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