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Cue the return of the misery index
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:11 pm
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:11 pm
Which of our posters called this a few months ago?
But could extreme poverty also be a feature of what is (although perhaps not for long) one of the richest and most powerful nations in the world? Quite possibly. To answer the question, the United Nations launched an investigation of extreme poverty in the United States.
Philip Alston, the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, has just wrapped up a 15-day tour of the United States. His team visited Alabama, California, Puerto Rico, West Virginia and Washington, D.C. The findings, released last Friday, documented homelessness, unsafe sanitation and sewage disposal practices, as well as police surveillance, criminalization and harassment of the poor. The rise in poverty, they found, disproportionately affects people of color and women, but also large swaths of white Americans. The report concluded that the pervasiveness of poverty and inequality “are shockingly at odds with [the United States’] immense wealth and its founding commitment to human rights.”
The current tax bill promises to further exacerbate the problem by providing generous tax cuts for corporations and the wealthiest Americans, modest tax cuts for many middle-class families and decreased spending on programs that help the poor, which currently constitute only 1.5 percent of federal outlays.
The growth of extreme poverty in the land of plenty is an indicator that we shouldn’t be talking about how to slash spending on social programs, but how to expand services and better meet the needs of the vulnerable among us. One and a half million American households live in extreme poverty today, nearly twice as many as 20 years ago. If this trend continues, we will undoubtedly see the number of extremely poor Americans rise dramatically, imperiling the values of democracy and human rights. LINK
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Extreme poverty returns to America
But could extreme poverty also be a feature of what is (although perhaps not for long) one of the richest and most powerful nations in the world? Quite possibly. To answer the question, the United Nations launched an investigation of extreme poverty in the United States.
Philip Alston, the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, has just wrapped up a 15-day tour of the United States. His team visited Alabama, California, Puerto Rico, West Virginia and Washington, D.C. The findings, released last Friday, documented homelessness, unsafe sanitation and sewage disposal practices, as well as police surveillance, criminalization and harassment of the poor. The rise in poverty, they found, disproportionately affects people of color and women, but also large swaths of white Americans. The report concluded that the pervasiveness of poverty and inequality “are shockingly at odds with [the United States’] immense wealth and its founding commitment to human rights.”
The current tax bill promises to further exacerbate the problem by providing generous tax cuts for corporations and the wealthiest Americans, modest tax cuts for many middle-class families and decreased spending on programs that help the poor, which currently constitute only 1.5 percent of federal outlays.
The growth of extreme poverty in the land of plenty is an indicator that we shouldn’t be talking about how to slash spending on social programs, but how to expand services and better meet the needs of the vulnerable among us. One and a half million American households live in extreme poverty today, nearly twice as many as 20 years ago. If this trend continues, we will undoubtedly see the number of extremely poor Americans rise dramatically, imperiling the values of democracy and human rights. LINK
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Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:12 pm to Jbird
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and decreased spending on programs that help the poor, which currently constitute only 1.5 percent of federal outlays.
Bull. fricking. shite.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:12 pm to Jbird
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His team visited Alabama, California, Puerto Rico, West Virginia and Washington, D.C.
1 of these is not like the others
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:12 pm to Centinel
BattleSwarm
@BattleSwarmBlog
“Returns”? Where was all this reporting on poverty when Lightbringer McLegTingle was POTUS?
10:28 AM - Dec 27, 2017
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:13 pm to Jbird
This is why I hate expanding social welfare programs. We're at a low point in unemployment, but no one wants to curtail the welfare spending. Once these programs are expanded, they never contract.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:17 pm to Jbird
Poverty is whatever the government wants it to be.
The literal, official definition of poverty is if your income falls below a gov't-created income standard.
If the census wanted to, it could adjust that level to make poverty 0% in America.
It's amazing how many people don't understand this.
The literal, official definition of poverty is if your income falls below a gov't-created income standard.
If the census wanted to, it could adjust that level to make poverty 0% in America.
It's amazing how many people don't understand this.
This post was edited on 12/27/17 at 12:24 pm
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:19 pm to Jbird
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decreased spending on programs that help the poor
Good. Other than the typical response of "bc its the right thing to do" why in the frick should I be forced to support poor people?
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:21 pm to terd ferguson
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why in the frick should I be forced to support poor people?
You should support poor people; you shouldn't support lazy people tho
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:21 pm to Jbird
That was me.
I started a few threads during the Obama reign because the misery index was as high it had ever been under Obama, but not a peep of this since Bush finished his term.
Enjoy!
I started a few threads during the Obama reign because the misery index was as high it had ever been under Obama, but not a peep of this since Bush finished his term.
Enjoy!
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:21 pm to Jbird
And here's the Wikipedia article on this Alston fellow:
LINK
In other words, a globalist from another country who has had a silver spoon stuck so far down his mouth that it's protruding from his anus.
He never came home from college to learn that his father came home early from work--because the company locked its doors and went out of business.
LINK
In other words, a globalist from another country who has had a silver spoon stuck so far down his mouth that it's protruding from his anus.
He never came home from college to learn that his father came home early from work--because the company locked its doors and went out of business.
This post was edited on 12/27/17 at 12:22 pm
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:22 pm to EZE Tiger Fan
quote:Well we have a few years of it coming back to the front.
I started a few threads during the Obama reign because the misery index was as high it had ever been under Obama, but not a peep of this since Bush finished his term.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:22 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Poverty is whatever the government wants it to be.
Exactly. We have the richest poor in the world.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:23 pm to Wtodd
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You should support poor people; you shouldn't support lazy people tho
Many of the poor and lazy underprivileged can't help it. They are tired often because of the melatonin in their skin
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:23 pm to Jbird
What? They left out the hookworm epidemic in the South?
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:25 pm to Wtodd
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You should support poor people; you shouldn't support lazy people tho
One and the same
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:26 pm to terd ferguson
They could be but not in all cases
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:29 pm to Jbird
They had the “misery index” and a war death count in the bottom corner of all the major news networks during Bush’s second term, and they both disappeared in 2008. It was only a matter of time before it returned.
Nothing like the media telling Americans how poor and miserable they are
Nothing like the media telling Americans how poor and miserable they are
This post was edited on 12/27/17 at 12:43 pm
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:31 pm to Jbird
The endless stream of propaganda is laughably sad.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:32 pm to Eighteen
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They had the “misery index” and a war death count in the bottom corner of all ththe major news networks during Bush’s second term, and they both disappeared in 2008. It was only a matter of time before it returned.
When you call them out on it they lie with a straight face. It's sad.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 12:34 pm to TrueTiger
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Poverty is whatever the government wants it to be.
Exactly. We have the richest poor in the world.
The only parts of the USA that look like Mogadishu are the parts the residents turned into their own little Mogadishu's.
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