Editing Issaquena County, Mississippi (section)

===Poverty and unemployment===
Of 3,197 counties ranked by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2011 for "estimated percent of people of all ages in poverty", Issaquena was 14th; for those under age 18, the county was eighth. It was estimated that 40.1 percent of the county's residents lived in poverty.<ref>{{Cite web |year=2011 |title=Table 1: 2011 Poverty and Median Income Estimates - Counties - Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates |url=https://www.census.gov/did/www/saipe/downloads/estmod11/est11ALL.xls |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010134222/http://www.census.gov/did/www/saipe/downloads/estmod11/est11ALL.xls |archive-date=October 10, 2013 |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau}}</ref>

In 2014, Issaquena County had the highest percentage of unemployed people in Mississippi, and the fifth highest of any county in the United States, at 18.4 percent.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Labor Force Data by County, 2014 Annual Averages |url=http://www.bls.gov/lau/laucnty14.xlsx |access-date=July 27, 2015 |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics}}</ref>