StateImpact on OETA: Extreme Youth Poverty in Southeast Oklahoma

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  Joe Wertz was a reporter and managing editor for StateImpact Oklahoma from 2011-2019. He reported on energy and environment issues for national NPR audiences and other national outlets. He previously worked as a managing editor, assistant editor and staff reporter at several major Oklahoma newspapers and studied journalism at the University of Central Oklahoma.

StateImpact Oklahoma’s Logan Layden appeared on Oklahoma News Report to talk about poverty, which is at a 10-year high in Oklahoma.

Layden and OETA’s Dick Pryor talked about the poverty trend and our recent story from Choctaw County, where things are particularly bad for young Oklahomans.

If you missed the Friday broadcast or Sunday’s re-airing, you can watch the four-minute segment above.