In the Native American community of Blackwater,Arizona, gambling money flows from nearby casinos but personal incomes remain among the lowest in the US. Chris McGreal visits for the last in his series on America’s poorest townsPart 1: America’s poorest white town: abandoned by coal, and swallowed by drugsPart 2: Poorest town in poorest state: segregation has gone,but so have the jobsPart 3: America’s poorest border town: no immigration papers, no American Dream Chuck Morgan is back where he began. nearly.
“There used to be an weak building, or like a barn,up on the hill there. We lived there and we had no water, no electricity, or no bathroom. We had an outhouse. We had to live by lamps. Wood stoves. Trucked our own water in by wagon,” he said. “We had just two big weak rooms. A living room and a bedroom together. The whole family there. The other room was a cramped kitchen.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com