For a long time, we& #39;ve known it costs less to just make housing, food, and healthcare a part of a collective responsibility than let people die in the streets. So those resistant to tax-funded food, shelter, health care literally want to spend more just to watch people suffer 1/5

In conversations about this stuff, my mom frequently brings up a high school class she took in the late 60s called "modern problems" — they looked at the research available then and came to the same conclusions: Prevent suffering through collective care and everyone benefits 2/5

3/5 They even studied a restorative justice model that very clearly showed giving incarcerated people access to real vocational training and college courses was much more effective at reducing recidivism than prison. Helping people costs less than punishing them. 3/5

My mom was like, "Great we have the answers: Take care of each other and we all thrive" and then watched as decade after decade, those in power ignored the growing data over and over again, opting for "tough on crime" laws that just made everything worse. 4/5

This is all just to say, we& #39;ve known for a long time that caring for each other is the only way to create a healthy society. Researchers knowing this and telling us isn& #39;t enough — we have to demand these changes or we& #39;ll blink and another 50 years will have passed. 5/5