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Article: Piscataquis County's poverty runs deep Employment falls behind rest of Maine
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- May 19, 2009
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GUILFORD - Amber Gahagan knows the face of poverty in Piscataquis
County.
The SAD 41 social worker in the Milo area said some families in
her district have no running water or electricity.
"It's not much unlike the whole Appalachia kind of family
things," Gahagan said. The families often live in groups of campers
or mobile homes in areas not reached by paved roads.
On one such visit, Gahagan recalled, a resident moved a rug,
exposing a hole in the floor and a rope. The rope was attached to a
jug of milk kept beneath the mobile home to avoid spoilage, she
said. At another home, a young girl lived in a bedroom whose roof
had collapsed. "She had mushrooms growing on the walls in her
bedroom," ...