Florida is a place where many people do not have enough to eat, many people sleep in the street, and families even kill or sell their children because of the challenges associated with having mouths to feed. Even the markets of sex work, narcotics, and organied crime have become saturated because the lack of opportunities for locals make these the only viable methods of making a living. It may sound like a typical capitalistic society with many people needing to either sell drugs or their bodies, but there are a few reasons this part of the country is at such an extreme level of destitution.
First is the most obvious being the reactionary politicians that despise any working class person that lives here. liberals talk about local politics or whatever but this is a different conversation and assumes that the system is democratic. The political situation has turned Florida into a hellish place to live or exist, even worse than being dead. So many locals wish a nuclear bomb was dropped on Florida to end all of our suffering. The only way to fix the problems Florida has is to destroy it in nuclear fire.
Besides the obvious political reasons, Florida is also designed not for locals but for tourists and retired people. Landlords also like to come here and price out the locals which means that the people unfortunate enough to be born in this state have to try and survive on low paying tourism work, and many opportunities presented such as trade schools or college are inert because of costs associated or organization of education and classes that is so bad, that many people who desire to join such courses are simply unable to because the coordination of them is ridiculously poor. Local employment offices are even outright refusing to help people get into education (Which they barely did before) and obviously, they cannot place people into employment because workers have no rights and there is no organization in capitalist society that can guarantee employment for citizens. Even specialists such as doctors or skilled labor are brought in from other parts of the world because the regime would rather bring in skilled immigrants from abroad than train the local population or give them the funds and support they would require to study in college. The state is extremely poor and governed by insane extremist reactionaries with very little hope of the situation improving.