The Tyson meatpacking plant has brought thousands of new people to Garden City, Kansas, in the past four decades.
But even as the industry rakes in around $2 billion for the local economy each year, the number of people living in poverty in the rural town has soared.
David Condos of Kansas News Services reports.
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