America's poorest towns
In a series of four dispatches, Chris McGreal reports from four of the poorest towns in the USA – in Kentucky, Mississippi, Texas and Arizona – and meets those trying to do more than survive in places so remote from the American dream.
A reservation town fighting alcoholism, obesity and ghosts from the past
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 towns
America's poorest border town: no immigration papers, no American Dream
In his third dispatch from the US’s most deprived communities, Chris McGreal visits Colonia Muñiz in Texas, where the right documents can make the difference between surviving and prospering
Poorest town in poorest state: segregation is gone but so are the jobs
In his second dispatch from the US’s most deprived communities, Chris McGreal visits Tchula in Mississippi, where crime is high and opportunities are few
America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs
In the first of a series of dispatches from the US’s poorest communities, we visit Beattyville, Kentucky, blighted by a lack of jobs and addiction to painkillers
