Gains on the reservations

Gains on the reservations
By Brad Knickerbocker Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor ASHLAND, ORE. – American Indians are better off today than they were a decade ago. Per capita income is up, poverty and unemployment rates have dropped, overcrowding in housing has decreased, education levels have risen.
Some of this is tied to casino income. But Harvard researchers, analyzing the most recent census data, find that the economic and social improvements on reservations and other Indian-owned land have occurred in tribes without gambling revenues as well.
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