12-12-2019 21:25 via sltrib.com

Utah’s poverty rate is nation’s 3rd lowest — but prosperity is spread unevenly

Utah ranks third among states with the least amount of poverty. But disparity among its counties and its school districts is vast, new U.S. Census Bureau data show.For example, more than one of every five people in San Juan County — home of the Navajo reservation — lives in poverty. That is five times the rate of high-income Morgan County.Even within the same county, differences are sometimes great.For example, Jordan School District in the fast-growing and increasingly wealthy south
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