Concentration of wealth and incomes in the top 1% is driving poor people homeless around the nation.  The NYT reported this morning that 1 in 10 NY city public schoolchildren were homeless at some point last year.  People are falling off the bottom rung of the economic ladder and into a life on the streets all around the country, not just in Hawai`i.

Until the federal gov't. acts to lessen disparities of wealth and incomes, state and local governments will be left with the problem of how to deal with homeless poor.   

A century ago there were poor farms around the country, supported by local poor taxes.  Perhaps Hawai`i could bring back poor farms on empty sugar, pine, or ranch lands?