 Since the 1970s General Electric has employed a few hundred workers at a manufacturing plant.Unemployment was widespread, with consequent social problems.The 2000 US census reported a median household income in 1999 dollars of $9,331 (compared to $41,994 for the US as a whole), and 35.8% of the population of 16 years and over in the labor force (compared to 63.9% for the US as a whole).