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We have to actually solve two problems to fix this. One is the immediate problem of extreme poverty, that can be relieved with money to provide food shelter etc for human beings who would go without, especially children. The approach offered in the report and article addresses the immediate need, wssh it was enough money for peple to thrive.

What we are failing to do is put into play the economic structures and myths that create such deep poverty in such a rich place.. We need more discussion about creating a climate justice economy and using community oriented economics create an American society with no extreme poverty. The key is stopping the climate catastrophe, which will only be successful if the transition begins with lifting the lowest income and most marginalized communities and removes the toxins and disease causing emissions that disproportionally shorrten lives as well as the carbon pollution.. If we address this together as a climate justice economic development program we are much more likely to have a prosperous Rhode Island.

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