Recent Press Herald reports have featured the personal stories of low-income people unable to afford housing or child care, including child care workers, as well as financial problems experienced by some landlords who say they cannot afford to maintain the affordable housing they own.

Clearly, local, state and federal governments and private nonprofits don’t have the resources to fill these economic gaps. We need to scrape money off the top tier of corporations and the wealthy to provide economic justice; it is these parties who should shoulder the consequences of our over-driven capitalist system.

Our form of capitalism is not a sustainable model. Until we make changes, we have to find a balance where capitalism contributes to the well-being of everyone, versus the capitalism that ensures the well-being of just a few.

Jo Myers
Waldoboro