Lindsey LeBaron’s letter to the editor served as a call to speak up in our democracy and support the end of poverty. This is a great idea.
In our country, with 1 in 5 children and 1 in 7 seniors living in poverty, it is time to speak up. Ask your representatives to support a renters tax credit, offering hope instead of homelessness to millions of Americans.
Thanks to our voices, a bipartisan group in Congress passed an increase to America’s pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Millions of lives will now be saved and millions of new infections prevented. Let’s use our voices to ask for the same for Gavi, the vaccine alliance, so the world’s children will all have hope to live beyond age 5.
Let’s speak up with our calls, letters and visits, letting our representatives know that these and other initiatives to end poverty and infection will make a difference to all of us.
Willie Dickerson
Snohomish, Washington