Pullman LWV presents poverty study

Representatives from the Pullman League of Women Voters presented the results of a poverty study to Whitman County commissioners Monday. Mary Collins and Karen Kiessling told of how they undertook the project four years ago after seeing a USA Today newspaper article which reported that Whitman County was the poorest county in Washington.

“I didn’t believe it,” said Collins.

So she and the LWV chapter decided to look closer. Two years later they completed a 114-page study in May 2016.

The group began by considering the 2010 U.S. Census report that the article referred to, which showed that the...