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Samuel Vargo worked as a full-time reporter and editor for more than 20 years at a number of daily newspapers and business journals. He was also an adjunct English professor at colleges and universities in Ohio, West Virginia, Mississippi and Florida for about a decade. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and an M.A. in English (both degrees were awarded by Youngstown State University).

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Only an estimated 40,000 people live at this place near Wounded Knee Creek, S.D. With an 80 percent unemployment rate, an annual number of 500 children on the Pine Ridge Oglala-Lakota Sioux reservation attempting suicide, rampant alcoholism, and one in four children born on this reservation affected by birth defects associated with alcoholism, this is one of the most distressed and disadvantaged areas of the U.S.A. "Watching this video is just sad!," says James Magaska Swan, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, another Lakota tribe, and leader of the United Urban Warrior Society. "I don't normally pay much attention to 'Poverty Porn' But this video covers a lot of issues! and this story needs to be told and shared!"