If there were an easy cure for poverty and homelessness, we would be thrilled. If telling someone the error of their ways, explaining the difference between good and bad choices, handing them a list of instructions, and sending them out with an “attaboy” worked, that would be terrific.
It would be so much less stressful than figuring out how to help everyone who comes in keep their utilities on, put food on the table, have the medicine they need, and find employment. We could just kick back in the office, hand out lots of free advice, tell them to…
