Greetings,
I hope you and your families are well as you celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day 2026. Our most recent election was November the 4th when women, men, democrats, social democrats and independents swept all of the races. The key phrase being used by every single advocate was on the subject of affordability and how all of our basic needs involve the cost of living. Interestingly enough, their examples included housing, health care, and a number of other things, excluded the one thing that was not spoken to: wages, and specifically for our people, people experiencing homelessness, people working at one, two, or three minimum wage jobs and our Veterans, who served us well, but came back from the service with non-transferable skills, to an economic crisis that caused many of them to become homeless on the streets of our nation.

At least two of these people who will receive this letter may be running for President in the 2028 election. We are now going to try and help them keep their promises that they would come up with concrete methodologies to address affordability for our nation’s citizens. Well we have answers. As you read the letter, imagine that this might be our finest opportunity to get real traction for what we know and love as the Universal Living Wage (and what we now call the National Locality Wage). Let’s work together and try to make this become a reality. Thank you. Blessings to you and your families. Let’s talk again soon. Best, Richard