Stories like this break my heart. The Orlando area is among the poorest metro areas in the nation. So many working poor and a state with a low minimum wage and the Orlando area just has such a high percentage of people working for wages below the poverty level. In other areas throughout the country the wealthier tend to create shelters and food bank etc. In areas like this little is done to help those get back on their feet and start a new. School districts are required to take homeless children in under their wings without any funding, children should be educated no matter what troubles their families. Then schools must feed children in these situations, again without any real funding back to the schools. In the Orlando area this is a burden to the schools given the amount of poor in the area. A vicious circle.
We have choices as a nation, establish a higher minimum wage for our nation so they can be more self sufficient or continue to subsidize these same people/families though social service programs funded by tax dollars.
Choice one the higher wages would fall on businesses (Disney included) or choice 2 the various social services the tax payers fund. This area tends to look at Disney and their amazing profit margins and then look at a chunk of their employees. In other areas it could be any other corporation with large profits and low wages. Massive box hardware stores are often used as the example up my way or the Box Department stores and large chain restaurants. The fact is unemployment for the most part has come down but so many of these displaced workers are under employed and once lived a better life and now are in poverty.
It doesn't matter how the poor got to where they are, they are there. Now all we as a nation have to decide is how to proceed for the future, a cost of doing business or more reliance of social services, a cost to tax payers.
Will be interested to see how this all plays out in the future.
