Get a dozen people off welfare and you have paid for the store. If a dozen people are earning money and paying taxes society is a lot better off. With education you can get good jobs. Information technology is priced too high. A minimum wage earner cannot afford a computer, an internet account, cable and sometimes basic phone service.
Computers keep getting faster, but they still cost almost two thousand dollars.
The cost of information is limited only by technology. We need to set a goal of bringing affordable information to the working poor, the minimum wage earner. All of society's problems are interlinked. If housing were cheaper then a minimumm wage earner could afford cable. If he watched an educational channel he would aquire the skills necessary to get a better paying job.