Posted on 06/03/2018 8:13:19 AM PDT by mandaladon
GENEVA (Reuters) - Poverty in the United States is extensive and deepening under the Trump administration whose policies seem aimed at removing the safety net from millions of poor people, while rewarding the rich, a U.N. human rights investigator has found.
Philip Alston, U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty, called on U.S. authorities to provide solid social protection and address underlying problems, rather than "punishing and imprisoning the poor".
In a report, Alston said that as welfare benefits and access to health insurance were being slashed, President Donald Trump's tax reform awarded "financial windfalls" to the mega-rich and large companies, further increasing inequality.
Extreme poverty in the United States, however, is not new. Alston said U.S. policies since President Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty in the 1960s have been "neglectful at best".
"But the policies pursued over the past year seem deliberately designed to remove basic protections from the poorest, punish those who are not in employment and make even basic health care into a privilege to be earned rather than a right of citizenship," Alston said.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A U.S. official in Geneva, asked for comment, told Reuters: "The Trump Administration has made it a priority to provide economic opportunity for all Americans."
Almost 41 million people or 12.7 percent live in poverty, 18.5 million in extreme poverty, and children account for one in three poor, Alston said. The United States has the highest youth poverty rate among industrialized countries, he added.
However, the data from the U.S. Census Bureau he cited covers only the period through 2016, and he gave no comparative figures for before and after Trump came into office in January 2017.
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Figures are through 2016. That’s Obama’s terms in office. Read the whole article and you’ll see this at the end. It’s been known that poverty increased during Obama’s time in office. Then this clown says it “seems” that Trump increased poverty...
Yeah, it’s pathetic, but typical of Yahoo “News”
Same dipsh!+s:
“Americans are getting poorer [during the Trump recovery].”
“Global warming is real [as we stumble out of the longest winter in years].”
Cut funding to zero, move UN to Nairobi.
There is no poverty in America unless you want to be impovrished. Pleanty of social programs to keep youbfed, clothed and sheltered with enough left over for tatoos.
Reads like a DNC press release.
It tells me that the United Nations is bashing the USA again...and that they are covering for Barack Obama, and his mistakes while potus.
Philip Alston, U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty
Fixed:
Philip Alston, a Mega Rich U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty
Under Obama, misery was shared equally.
The UN needs to worry about its child trafficking and child rape crimes before worrying about anything in OUR country.
It amazes me how so many professional "poor" are visibly, bulgingly beyond well-nourished, they typically have better phones than do I, and somehow they accomplish precisely nothing, even with such endless free time.
America’s “poor” are among the most prosperous in the world.
Go back to your shithole country, pally.
When Obama was President, we had 100% employment, everyone earned $1 million per year, there were no crimes and everyone was happy.
“Philip Alston, U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty”
Let’s see how “poor” we can make the UN! I guess “rapporteur” is French for worthless POS!
The devil is in the details. When you are pushing an agenda you let the Devil mind the details for you and just make it up as you go along.
more lying propaganda bullshit from the leftist fake stream media:
https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/media-bias/
Philip G. Alston is an international law scholar and human rights practitioner. He is John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, and co-Chair of the law school’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. Wikipedia
Born: 1950 (age 68 years), Australia
Education: University of Melbourne
Books: International Human Rights, MORE
Siblings: Richard Alston
I generally like Australians. But I guess they contribute their “$hit people” to the UN, just like most countries.
Funny, that paragraph gets tossed in at the end ... it could and should have been the opener .. I.e., “citing only US Census Bureau figure through 2016 ... .”
You can always count on Reuters and the MSM to obfuscate.
What this tells me is the NWO ruling elite controls the clowns in the UN to bash Trump like the MSM does, with lies and innuendo and that they fear President Trump will defeat them and their agenda.
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