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Poorest County In Kentucky

  • They had a poorest county of each state thing on my homepage. In Kentucky it's Owsley County. Here is what it said.

    Kentucky's poorest county: Owsley

    •Poverty rate: 40.1%
    •Poverty rate of residents under 18: 54.4%
    •Median household income: $22,335

    Owsley County is a small area in the eastern part of Kentucky, roughly 90 miles from Lexington. The homeownership rate is high, with 76.3% of residents owning a home, higher than the Kentucky state average of 70.2%. However, the poverty rate for children is still higher than 50%.

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    CarlLexington

  • I thought I read an article recently that tabbed Owsley the poorest county in the country. I could be wrong.

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    Nate87 ●

  • That median household income is horrible. One person making minimum wage can make 22,000 bucks in a year. You can make 5 times that with a couple of young kids and still feel poor.

    tWhit ●

  • Can't imagine how people get by with a $22K family income. Dang...

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  • The people Mitt Romney isn't concerned with. With all the safety nets in place.

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    CarlLexington

  • Owlsey County sucks. I hate their baseball field. Only one that was worse was Wolfe Co.

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    It smells like microwaved homeless people in here.

    Warmother51

  • CarlLexington said...

    The people Mitt Romney isn't concerned with. With all the safety nets in place.

    Why is it still so poor? Hasnt Obama been in charrrrrrrrrrrrge???blackeye

    WildcatGG24

  • CarlLexington said...

    The people Mitt Romney isn't concerned with. With all the safety nets in place.

    You're probably right, but lets be honest here. Liberals really aren't concerned about these people either, at least not in a positive way. They are only concerned when it comes to voting. Keep the people dependent on welfare and poorly educated and you have followers for life.

    AverageJoe247

  • Nate87 said...

    I thought I read an article recently that tabbed Owsley the poorest county in the country. I could be wrong.

    In the ranking I saw the other day, Owsley was the 13th poorest in the country.

    It is very likely the poorest predominantly white county in the country, whatever that might mean. Pretty much all the others at that level have large populations of Indians, blacks, or Mexicans.

    But this doesn't have anything to do with economic cycles or who the president is. Owsley County has been the poorest in the state, and one of the poorest in the country, for as long as I can remember. It's very hard, near impossible, for a community to break out of a poverty cycle.

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  • AverageJoe247 said...

    You're probably right, but lets be honest here. Liberals really aren't concerned about these people either, at least not in a positive way. They are only concerned when it comes to voting. Keep the people dependent on welfare and poorly educated and you have followers for life.

    That's not true and facts don't back up that argument. The poorly educated vote Republican by a wide margin. Liberals are against the gutting of education that the conservatives try year after year. Cutting pell grants in the Ryan plan is a good example. The conservatives put a "snob" label on the educated to get votes from their ignorant followers. And it works. You'd rather vote for someone that blatantly doesn't care about the poor over someone with a record of trying to help them, because you don't think the person is sincere?

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  • We keep tossing more and more money at education and it doesn't work. We need to hold teachers and school districts accountable by allowing parents to send their kids to charter schools with a voucher system.

    There are way too many counties in the state of KY. It's stupid that we have the 3rd or 4th most counties in the USA. Many of the counties have less than 5,000 people in them. Someone should work at merging some of these piss poor and tiny(population wise) counties. You could realistically merge 4-5 counties together in many areas of the state and save their taxpayers a ton of money and have more bargaining power in the state Congress and potentially lure some businesses their way.

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  • tWhit said...

    That median household income is horrible. One person making minimum wage can make 22,000 bucks in a year. You can make 5 times that with a couple of young kids and still feel poor.

    Minimum wage at 40 hours/week is actually $15,080 before taxes...

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  • tWhit said...

    One person making minimum wage can make 22,000 bucks in a year.

    Yes, you can. If you make $7.25 an hour and work 60 hours a week (every week) you can make $22,620 in a year. But, that's before taxes.

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  • Warmother51 said...

    Owlsey County sucks. I hate their baseball field. Only one that was worse was Wolfe Co.

    Haha, I can attest to that. I played for Wolfe County during my Junior year. The entire field is nothing but sand, and it has craters that hold water forever after it rains. Owsley County's field is bad, too. Lee County and Morgan County, however. That's a different story. Those are some nice facilities.

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    BigBlueTopper

  • Liberals are concerned about the Hispanic and black vote. Poor people who are white and live in Eastern Kentucky are the real forgotten in USA. No programs for them because they are not considered poor because of their skin color. That is why everyone in Eastern Kentucky needs a gun to kill these do good for nothing carpetbaggers as soon as they get out of their car to take yet another survey on poverty in america.

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