The Root Cause

I listened to a good broadcast this morning on Native America Calling about the high levels of homelessness among Native Americans and the setbacks in efforts to combat it all over the country.  Most discussions about the topic focus on bandaids to the problem, I think.

    The government economic aid packages of the Covid years reduced homelessness by a significant amount.  It seems pretty clear that homelessness has developed in parallel with the constantly increasing economic inequality in the U.S.  Reducing inequality should clearly be a priority in regard to homelessness, along with approaches to a lot of other chronic problems in this country such as medical care.  An important first step would be a massive overhaul of the U.S. taxation scheme.