Fifteen Counties Most Vulnerable to a Decline in the Burley Quota

County

Tobacco as % of Total Income

Poverty Rate 1995

Unemployment Rate (Nov. '99)

Kentucky 1.0%

17.9%

3.7%
Robertson 11.2% 20.1% 4.3%
Monroe 3.8% 23.7% 16.2%
Green 7.8% 19.0% 9.9%
Elliott 6.6% 32.1% 7.4%
Owsley 5.4% 46.6% 4.7%
Bath 8.0% 25.7% 5.2%
Nicholas 9.1% 22.1% 3.8%
Lewis 5.6% 28.1% 8.3%
Cumberland 5.1% 28.1% 8.9%
Metcalfe 7.6% 24.1% 4.6%
Hart 7.5% 25.3% 4.5%
Bracken 8.7% 17.4% 4.0%
Owen 9.1% 19.0% 2.7%
Fleming 8.5% 22.1% 2.9%
Morgan 4.3% 36.3% 5.2%