There are places in Florida that you never knew existed. And it's tragic.

There’s a place you probably haven’t heard about before that’s known for three things - extreme poverty, violence and football players. It’s called the Muck - and it lies on the eastern shore of Lake Okeechobee - a long forgotten about former agriculture hub in the middle of nowhere Florida. There’s nothing out here except for some housing communities, projects and farmland. There are about 8,000 homes here.

And only 40 miles away, within the same county, is this. Palm Beach is practically the wealthiest place you can live in America. It’s filled with millionaires and more billionaires per capita than any other place in the country. It has about 8,000 people.

These two places don’t really know much about one another. But comparing their completely opposite fortunes will put into perspective just how divided our population has grown.

Palm Beach, Florida. Home to country clubs and yachts. There isn’t a home here worth under a million bucks. It’s an island off of the Atlantic Coast - just a short bridge away from West Palm Beach. The amount of wealth here is staggering. It’s the kind of place where people shop at boutique outlets with their little dogs that wear $35,000 diamond dog collars.

Just one of the billionaires in Palm Beach could buy up every single home over here on the shores of Lake Okeechobee - home to about 8,000 households.

There are a handful of communities on the banks of this muddy lake, but we’ll spend our time in two of them - Belle Glade and Pahokee. If you live in Florida, you’ve probably heard of these places before, but you probably don’t know what they look like. And I think you’ll be kinda shocked.

We’ll begin in Belle Glade. There’s about 20,000 people out here in no man’s land Florida. 4 in 10 of them live on government assistance, where the average entire household brings in about $2,000 a month. One in every four households bring in about 800 dollars a month.

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