Case studies in Austin, Texas, illustrate how the game is clearly rigged
At my company’s holiday party in December, a coworker from the East Coast told me of her shock at Seattle’s visible poverty. “You can’t miss it unless you don’t ever go downtown, and even then, in many neighborhoods, you can’t escape it,” she said, marveling at how different that was from her home city.
At the same time, she had no idea of the laws banning or restricting the distribution of food to the homeless sweeping the country. ...