Let’s get this straight: Underemployment is an essential and daily reality for many people. Better jobs, an optimistic goal. Scaring people out of their delicately balanced and already precarious subsistence models will not transform them into better, stronger earners (“Stepping back,” RC, Oct. 8). Can policymakers (typically salaried professionals) designing such “incentives” as Stepping Forward begin to examine their own professional and class biases? Or must we do that for them?
What is so difficult in acknowledging the personal and spiritual resources inherent to surviving on limited means?
Lucy Mendes | Seattle, WA