to shame other people so we feel about the decision wes made? at least that s not me. let me tell you something, average american does not have enough savings to ensure that s.n.a.p., homelessness is not necessarily in your future. you don t know that. you re one illness, one divorce away from one missed child support payment. yep. happens a lot to women. from being in line at a pantry in a desperate situation. your book also focuses clearly on some solutions. when you look at the kinds of policies that we see affecting the homeless or the congressional policies around nutritional assistance, what do you see as some of our key solutions? i think, first of all, it s important to broaden the conversation. if we just think about it as poverty, we re in a sense truncating the discussion because this is a crisis triggered not by lack of resources but by a stunning change in the way our economy and society functions. it s about the rise of a level of inequality that hasn t be