UN expert slams US on poverty, quitting global rights body
Source: AP News
BERLIN (AP) A human rights expert criticized the United States on Friday for failing to tackle poverty and giving tax cuts to the wealthy comments that came only days after Washington quit the U.N. body that appointed him.
High U.S. income inequality can only be made worse by the Trump administrations policy of cutting taxes, Philip Alston told the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.
At the other end of the spectrum, 40 million Americans live in poverty and 18.5 million of those live in extreme poverty, he said. In addition, vast numbers of middle-class Americans are perched on the edge, with 40 percent of the adult population saying they would be unable to cover an unexpected $400 expense.
A day before Alston presented his report to the rights body, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, branded it misleading and politically motivated in a letter .
It is patently ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America, she said, insisting that the Trump administration takes the issue very seriously and the U.N. should focus on countries where the situation is worse.
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dlk
(11,606 posts)This was a preemptive action by the Trump administration.
turbinetree
(24,745 posts)and this report shows the down right hypocrisy that is being fed by the country, over 65 million human beings live in poverty, and I can remember when Bobby Kennedy went in the mountains of Appalachian to take a look at this and he decide right then and there to report his finding to his brother and to set up a task force to combat this issue...............jump forward 50/60 years and the poor are being attacked as takers........................just like those on Social Security and Medicare / Medicaid, Food Stamps, Public Housing are being attacked as takers....................amazing
lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)Nikki Haley be deported?