re: Louisiana town named most unequal town in the nation

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I hate narratives like this that just present an issue with no solution. If it is so terrible and easily fixable please tell us how to fix it.

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Agree

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I hate narratives like this that just present an issue with no solution. If it is so terrible and easily fixable please tell us how to fix it.

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Actually reading the article, I can explain how to fix some of it.

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Jones, now 60, started working the cotton fields at 10. At 12, she became pregnant.

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By 16, Gilmore got pregnant and dropped out of school, just as her mother had.

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For years, she had a boyfriend who helped. He was the father of four of her children, and he gave Gilmore a financial cushion and moral support. When they first met, she found him arrogant. But her friends convinced her to give him a chance. She eventually was drawn to a softer side he usually kept hidden. Then, in 1994, only three years after the birth of her fifth child, Gilmore got a phone call that would change her life. Her boyfriend had been shot in the head. Two weeks later, his family pulled him off life support. His mother didn't want to pursue an investigation, Gilmore said, so the circumstances of his death remain unclear.

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How about not getting pregnant out of wedlock, especially by people who get shot in the head and the family doesn't want to pursue charges? How much you want to bet that his death had something to do with drug dealing, and no one wanted to pursue criminal charges because "snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches"?