Re: “Why are individuals homeless in Seattle? Look upstream” [Feb. 18, Local News]:
Naomi Ishisaka’s column on homelessness goes an extended strategy to explaining why the issue simply continues and will increase.
A greater social security internet to finish this and different scourges of poverty is so as. The U.S. Home of Representatives not too long ago handed a rise to the kid tax credit score, which when it beforehand expanded minimize baby poverty almost in half. After all, it nonetheless has to cross the Senate. Fortunately, each Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell are robust supporters. We are able to thank them, together with our representatives, and inform them why this laws issues on the similar time reminding them that that is solely the start.
It’s time to finish the travesty of poverty on the earth’s richest nation. We are able to’t afford to not, if individuals matter. In any case, our future is dependent upon it.
Willie Dickerson, Snohomish
