Just about every year at this time we're invited, even hectored, to participate in the "season of giving" and to "remember the less fortunate." In pre-Covid days we would see Salvation Army Santas ringing those bells as dollars rained down into their buckets. And we Americans do give generously. We do see the desperation of the hungry and homeless and open our wallets accordingly.
This is all to the good. I'm not here to disparage compassion. Not when 26 million adults report living in households where there's often not enough food - and not when more than one in six U.S. households with young children report experiencing hunger on a regular basis.
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