Nearly a quarter of children on the Big Island live in poverty (and we have the highest rate of poverty in the state of Hawaii)

http://westhawaiitoday.com/sections/news/local-news/big-isle-poverty-rise.html

A higher percentage of children live in poverty than on the Big Island than on any of the other Hawaiian islands.

This was front page news today in our local newspaper, West Hawaii Today. In general, nearly all social problems (including things like domestic violence, deaths due to drunk driving, etc.) are greater on this island than any of the other islands. :-(