CNN: The most unequal place in America
CNN
Published October 29, 2013
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Reporter John Sutter and I traveled to Lake Providence, Louisiana for two weeks to report on the county that has the highest incidence of income inequality in the United States.
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- Farmers are among the wealthier people in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana.
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- Delores Gilmore’s granddaughter lives in a trailer her mom is working to repair.
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- Lake Providence largely divides rich from poor in rural Louisiana.
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- Lake Providence Mayor Robert Amacker, who farms 10,000 acres with his brother, said some farmers would go out of business without farm subsidy programs.
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- Thomas Terral grew up with a sense of service to poorer people in town.
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- Valtakia Jones has been unemployed for four years. But she hasn’t given up hope.
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- Reporter John Sutter talks to Dorothy Jones.