Rez Life

¨ Over 80% Unemployment

¨ Per capita income of $4,000

¨ 52 % of the households single parented

¨ Temperatures from 40 below to 120 above

¨ 8 times the United States rate of diabetes

¨ 5 times the rate of cervical cancer

¨ Twice the rate of heart disease

¨ High rate of teen pregnancy

¨ 8 times the rate of TB

¨ Suicide rate more than twice the national rate

¨ Teen suicide 4 times the national rate

¨ Three times the infant mortality rate

¨ The lowest life expectancy in the U.S. and the 2nd lowest in the western hemisphere.

¨ 68 % school dropout rate

¨ High rate of Drug and alcohol abuse

¨ The poorest of USA's 3,143 counties*

¨ 60% live below the poverty level

¨ No public transportation, no banks, no movie theaters, no bowling alleys, no recreation centers, no unused clothing stores, no nursing homes

*This was true in the 1980 and 1990 census. The recent census places Pine Ridge third from the bottom; Not because things have improved there, but rather, because things got worse on two other South Dakota reservations.