When I first started traveling to poor countries as a young journalist I was most shocked by the slums.<\/p>\n
Tarp cities and shantytowns in Asia, Africa and Latin America \u201d\u201d often butted up against wealthy neighborhoods and sleek high-rises \u201d\u201d stood out to me as symbols of the distance between the United States and the \u201cdeveloping world.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
But that distance has shrunk in Seattle.<\/p>\n
Yes, we\u2019ve had a large homeless population here for as long as I can remember. But the now-ubiquitous knots of tents on traffic medians, the appearance of homeless encampments in neighborhoods and the growth of \u201cThe Jungle\u201d\u009d alongside I-5 have shown me our city is not immune to extreme poverty \u201d\u201d or outrageous disparity of wealth.<\/p>\n
And nothing brought that point home quite like visiting \u201cThe Jungle\u201d\u009d alongside an Anglican Bishop from South Sudan..<\/p>\n