A look inside America's poorest county!

In this Jan. 18, 2011, photo Stephanie Davidson and her husband Gerald Davidson look over fishing tackle inventory at their store in Eagle Butte, S.D. The Davidsons started a plumbing-and-heating business in 2000 that was hit hard by the recession and the limits of the reservation economy. They’ve laid off employees and filled empty space in their building by adding a bait shop and then a café. In the barren grasslands of Ziebach County, there's almost nothing harder to find in winter than a job. This is America's poorest county, where more than 60 percent of people live at or below the poverty line.

ZIEBACH COUNTY, S.D. (AP) -- In the barren grasslands of Ziebach County, there's almost nothing harder to find in winter than a job. This is America's poorest county, where more than 60 percent of people live at or below the poverty line.

At a time when the weak economy is squeezing communities across the nation, recently released census figures show that nowhere are the numbers as bad as here - a county with 2,500 residents, most of them Cheyenne River Sioux Indians living on a reservation.

In the coldest months of the year, when seasonal construction work disappears and the South Dakota prairie freezes, unemployment among the Sioux can hit 90 percent.

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go figure.

Working people all over America are amazed at the amount of disconnect....

I remember hearing about a Sioux gang in SD called the "Wild Boyz" that specializes in rumrunning and petty crime, but I think they've been blamed for some violence as well.