Owsley County, Ky., has the lowest median household income outside of Puerto Rico, according to the US Census Bureau. And its getting poorer with median income having decreased to $18,869 from $20,346 in 2000.
Is this what Mitch McConnell has in mind for the rest of the country?
Read this: Four out of five poorest counties in the US are in Mitch McConnell's Kentucky
Read the ABC News report.
There's alot more than trees falling in Owsley County, Kentucky than is pictured in this shot of a local landslide. So while Mitch McConnell fights for the rich in Washington, DC, the residents there remain the poorest in the nation with high rates of drug addiction and incarceration.
While Mitch McConnell and Congressional Republicans threaten the US with default on its debt, his home State of Kentucky suffers from some of the highest poverty and unemployment and some of the worst public health and environmental problems in the country. McConnell's Kentucky is not a vision for the rest of America most of us want to see.
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Friday, December 17, 2010
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