Re: “Why are people homeless in Seattle? Look upstream” [Feb. 18, Local News]:
Naomi Ishisaka’s column on homelessness goes an extended option to explaining why the issue simply continues and will increase.
A greater social security web to finish this and different scourges of poverty is so as. The U.S. Home of Representatives lately handed a rise to the kid tax credit score, which when it beforehand expanded lower little one poverty almost in half. In fact, it nonetheless has to go the Senate. Fortunately, each Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell are sturdy supporters. We will thank them, together with our representatives, and inform them why this laws issues on the identical time reminding them that that is solely the start.
It’s time to finish the travesty of poverty on the planet’s richest nation. We will’t afford to not, if folks matter. In any case, our future will depend on it.
Willie Dickerson, Snohomish
