Poverty and unemployment

Native American society has been left out of economic prosperity, ever since the recovery from the Great Depression.

26% of single-race Indigenous people are living in poverty, the highest rate of any race group.

Indigenous peoples has lowest labor force rate (61.1%) of any major racial group in the United States.

40% of housing on reservations is considered substandard.

30% of housing is over crowded.

Indigenous people pay 30% or more of their income to of housing.

1 in 3 men have full time jobs year-round because reservations are geographically isolated