1.  Wiggins is the largest town in Stone County, and one of the poorest regions of the poorest state in the country.

2.  And while Maine is no longer among the poorest states, it has lost much of its textile production and part of its shoe and boot industry.

3.  Magdeburg, the capital of Saxony-Anhalt, the poorest state in Germany, is ringed by housing projects left over from the communist era.

4.  Mississippi is often regarded as the poorest state in the nation.

5.  Per capita income in Puerto Rico is less than half of that in Mississippi, the poorest U.S. state.

6.  This being the poorest state in the country, even white schools were underfunded, and black schools even more so.

7.  Tobacco is the most heavily subsidized crop in the EU, with almost half of the production located in Greece, the poorest EU member state.

8.  Although the region is rich in gold and other minerals, Choco is the poorest state in Colombia.

9.  Bihar is the poorest state in a poor country.