Arkansas' race to the bottom.
It's not often Arkansas is #1 at anything.
Usually #1 in poverty is one of the other delta states.
When the budget deficit is put square on the back of the poorest of the poor, hospital emergency rooms will revert to being filled with uninsured.
This is the trend in major us cities:
Build casinos for raising taxes,
Traffic camera on each corner,
Hire more police and build more jails,
Close public schools,
File bankruptcy,
Impose sugar taxes,
More to come
It's sad when the middle class sees the least empowered people in the system as the liability that is causing their status in the middle class to decline. Finger pointing wrong way and these people should be smarter than to fall for the poor people are the problem, line.
That is exactly what divide and conquer is.