Editing Pahokee, Florida (section)

==Economy==

Pahokee was founded on the produce grown in the muck, the fertile bottom of the [[Everglades]] after [[Draining and development of the Everglades|part of it was drained in the early 20th century]]. In 1939, the [[Federal Writers' Project]] guide said of Pahokee: "From Christmas until April, Pahokee is a 24-hour town; long trains of refrigerated cars roll out for northern markets day and night." "The streets are noisy and crowded; bars, restaurants and gambling places are never closed."<ref>{{cite book
|title=Florida. A Guide to the Southernmost State
|date=1939
|place=New York
|author=Federal Writers' Project
|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref>

In 1963, with access to Cuban sugar restricted, a sugar plant was built, and agriculture shifted to the mechanized crop of [[sugar cane]]. The plant closed in 2009.<ref name=football />

As a result, it is one of two Palm Beach County cities—the other is [[South Bay, Florida|South Bay]]—on a list of 13 Florida municipalities in "a state of financial emergency."{{when|date=March 2018}} Records{{which|date=March 2018}} suggest it has been on the list continually since 1994. Unemployment exceeds 25%. Taxable property values dropped from about $99 million in 2007 to $66 million in 2014. A fifth of the population has migrated in the past 15 years. Dissolution of the city has been proposed.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Dissolution talk once again a song on the jukebox in Pahokee
|first=Eliot
|last=Kleinberg
|newspaper=[[Palm Beach Post]]
|date=August 21, 2015
|access-date=February 10, 2018
|url=http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/local/dissolution-talk-once-again-song-the-jukebox-pahokee/YtJkpsLVQvaZUxYb4KJFJJ/
|archive-date=February 13, 2018
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180213195737/http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/local/dissolution-talk-once-again-song-the-jukebox-pahokee/YtJkpsLVQvaZUxYb4KJFJJ/
|url-status=live
}}</ref>

On November 15, 1996, the old Pahokee High School building, built in 1928, was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.<ref>{{cite web
|title=Old Pahokee High School
|author=Emporis
|url=https://www.emporis.com/buildings/1230070/old-pahokee-high-school-pahokee-fl-usa
|access-date=February 4, 2016
|archive-date=February 7, 2018
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207005249/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/1230070/old-pahokee-high-school-pahokee-fl-usa
|url-status=usurped
}}</ref>

=== Everglades Regional Medical Center ===
 
Everglades Regional Medical Center, at 200 S. Barfield Highway was founded in 1936 as Everglades General Hospital; the current building opened in 1950. The 63-bed general hospital, financially nonviable, closed in 1998 after years of contention, a change from public to private ownership, and three lawsuits.<ref>{{Cite web|title=HOSPITAL SUBSIDY TIED TO COST CUTS|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1994-09-21-9409210435-story.html|last=Writer|first=GLENN SINGER Staff|website=Sun-Sentinel.com|date=September 21, 1994 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-05|archive-date=2020-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808035415/https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1994-09-21-9409210435-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Glades Health Care Center ===

Adjacent to the former hospital, at 230 S. Barfield Highway, is Glades Health Care Center, a 120-bed skilled nursing facility, with about 70 full-time employees.<ref>{{cite web
|title=Glades Health Care Center
|author=Hospital-Data.Com
|url=http://www.hospital-data.com/hospitals/GLADES-HEALTH-CARE-CENTER-PAHOKEE.html
|access-date=February 4, 2018
|archive-date=February 7, 2018
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207005303/http://www.hospital-data.com/hospitals/GLADES-HEALTH-CARE-CENTER-PAHOKEE.html
|url-status=live
}}</ref>