... as long as conservative state legislators continue to cut funding for social programs so that they can brag about saving money for taxpayers, this will continue! Taxpayers are having the nearly impossible task of surviving on the current wages being paid in many sectors; a solution would be to raise the minimum wage, & support labor unions who can negotiate better wages, allowing to take some of the 'sting' out of a tax increase which would be directed at 'skeletonized' social programs. Will these same conservative legislators vote for an increase in minimum wage & support labor unions to reverse this situation??? You already know the answer...!