re: Louisiana town named most unequal town in the nation

People in America have often followed job booms in industries including the oilfields, petrochemical plants, timber industries, mining industries, etc. Many of these positions require very little to no education and can produce six figure salaries for people willing to relocate and work hard. What makes the residents of Lake Providence, or other Delta towns, unable to seek out some of these positions? I don't like farm subsidies and the ridiculous system of government money to farmers at all but it is not the fault of the remaining farms that the descendants of former workers have no jobs left in their operations. I fail to see what is holding back a person living in a town such as Lake Providence from getting a bus fare to North Dakota, South Texas, or areas where work has been very strong for low education opportunities other than their own choices to remain in an area with weak economic options. The concept of people moving to bigger cities in search of jobs is not exactly new.