Across the United States, 1 in 3 Native Americans are living in poverty, with a median income of $23,000 a year. These numbers from the American Community Survey highlight the stark income inequality the nation’s first peoples face.
“Poverty has been, for over a century, a huge part of the conversation about Indigenous well-being, but to a large extent we don’t even know what drives Native American poverty, what causes it, and where it comes from,” said sociologist Beth Redbird. “And without those answers, it’s awfully hard to know how we can fix it.”
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