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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by allana on Friday August 23, 2019 @01:20PM (#20779966)
We don't have sufficent funding of social services to provide navigation teams and counselors to all of the visibly homeless (those you see on the street), never mind the thousands living in their cars in Seattle (the invisible homeless).

Seattle is doing what it can, but we need state and federal action to go further. We can't single handedly solve the severe wealth stratification that is worsening day by day :c

Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by empath75 on Friday August 23, 2019 @01:23PM (#20780003)
or you know, Amazon and Microsoft could throw in some cash.
Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by allana on Friday August 23, 2019 @01:57PM (#20780440)
Microsoft advocated for a tax on very large companies to fund social services to break the cycle of poverty leading to lack of opportunity for our youth: https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2019/07/21/amazon-m...
Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by sukilot on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:33PM (#20780913)
Microsoft's CEO lobbied for a progressive income tax that mountain residents voted down.