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>More than 1 in 8 Americans live in poverty, nearly half of those live in “deep poverty” and most have no way of escaping their plight
>While statistics show 14% of Americans live in poverty, so many more people live on the edge that 20% is a more realistic figure
>For example, Walmart workers who rely on government-issued food stamps because they cannot survive on what they earn at their full-time jobs.
>One illustration of horrific poverty and inequality, he said, is the comeback of hookworm, an intestinal parasite, in the South, where local governments fail to provide clean water and sanitation and force people to pay for such services themselves.
>The United States has the lowest rate of social mobility among the world’s rich countries, meaning “the American dream is rapidly becoming the American illusion
>Poor children have little or no access to quality nutrition, health care or decent education, all of which they would need to break out of poverty
>The poor in the United States often are in prison and are not allowed to vote due to criminal records or find it difficult to get to the polls amid efforts to deter voter participation
>Alston said he was struck by views he encountered across the country that people see the rich as “enterprising, altruistic, hard-working, dedicated” and the poor as “losers, scammers, people trying to profit from the system.”
>Those views are promoted by politicians to justify cuts in services and tax reforms that benefit the wealthy
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/16/world/social-issues-world/dire-u-s-poverty-worsen-trump-threatening-democracy-top-u-n-official-says
>mfw I'll live to see the day the U.S. becomes poorer than Nambia
>While statistics show 14% of Americans live in poverty, so many more people live on the edge that 20% is a more realistic figure
>For example, Walmart workers who rely on government-issued food stamps because they cannot survive on what they earn at their full-time jobs.
>One illustration of horrific poverty and inequality, he said, is the comeback of hookworm, an intestinal parasite, in the South, where local governments fail to provide clean water and sanitation and force people to pay for such services themselves.
>The United States has the lowest rate of social mobility among the world’s rich countries, meaning “the American dream is rapidly becoming the American illusion
>Poor children have little or no access to quality nutrition, health care or decent education, all of which they would need to break out of poverty
>The poor in the United States often are in prison and are not allowed to vote due to criminal records or find it difficult to get to the polls amid efforts to deter voter participation
>Alston said he was struck by views he encountered across the country that people see the rich as “enterprising, altruistic, hard-working, dedicated” and the poor as “losers, scammers, people trying to profit from the system.”
>Those views are promoted by politicians to justify cuts in services and tax reforms that benefit the wealthy
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/16/world/social-issues-world/dire-u-s-poverty-worsen-trump-threatening-democracy-top-u-n-official-says
>mfw I'll live to see the day the U.S. becomes poorer than Nambia
