Ah, the coast is a bigger one on that. With the loss of manufacturing jobs & timber, influx of uneducated Hispanics, add to the mix unemployment has stayed high which causes a real strain on everything in social services. Also as the cost of housing in the PS region increased we have had a rather large influx of low income folks from the urban areas as housing is cheaper as the lack of jobs had many area locals leaving, so empty rentals.

In our county budget the cost of providing representation in court cases for those who lack funds is huge. One Commissioner once remarked to me that every time the Legislature passed a new law it cost them a ton of $$$$, unfunded mandates he called them.

Everything is interlocked everywhere, like it or not, and most don't.