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Kathryn Xian
Kathryn Xian is a Democratic primary candidate for U.S. Congress in Hawaii’s 1st Congressional District. She is an award-winning filmmaker and the executive director of the Pacific Alliance to Stop Slavery, a service provider for survivors of trafficking. She has helped to pass eight laws relating to human trafficking, including Hawaii’s first labor trafficking law and the nation’s first state statute that made sex tourism into a felony offense.
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Let’s Overhaul the Way We Deal With Homeless People
We should change regressive tax policies and stop criminalizing homelessness, and channel resources to poverty reduction and housing.