District Twelve

However bad the other Districts have it, not one is as poor as District Twelve. The second mining district, Twelve is responsible for dragging coal from the mountains. It's dangerous work- no one may go into the mines until they're eighteen- and offers little money, especially since most of the haul is seized by the Capitol. On the bright side, there's enough coal for fires that people don't generally freeze to death in the winter, but that's not much consolation when people drop off of starvation right and left. Very few are rich here, and those that aren't must scrape and struggle to get by.
Mayor Rosemary Scarborough quinn garner . d6a [kap]