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10 poorest states in America

You might call it home, but statistics call it a struggling state. Check out which of the 50 states are the 10 poorest and why.

By Marlene Y. Satter | Updated on January 30, 2017

The Census Bureau may have given some good news about the economy recently, when it reported a 5.2 percent gain in middle-class median incomes — up to $56,500 in 2015 from $53,700 in 2014 — but that doesn’t mean blessings fall equally on all Americans.

In fact, when 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the numbers to see which states were richest and which poorest, it found that 11 states were pretty much left out of income growth.

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