Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Rural areas have much lower percentages in poverty than urban places.
2. The poorest counties in the United States are in Texas, Mississippi, and South Dakota.
3. The “Black Belt” refers to a region with many rural African Americans.
4. Poverty in South Dakota is most prevalent on Native American reservations.
5. The world’s poorest people are rural.
1. False
2. True
3. True
4. True
5. True
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