The UN Finds That Poverty In The U.S. Is Shockingly Bad For A Developed Country
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After a trip around the country, Philip Alston, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on extreme poverty, was shocked by what he found.
Philip Alston has seen a lot of miserable living conditions in his work as the United Nations’ special rapporteur on extreme poverty. But what he witnessed on a recent fact-finding trip around the United States still disturbed him. The U.S. is supposed to be a rich and advanced country and yet 40 million people in the country now live below the poverty line. And–as Alston found–many Americans don’t even have access to basic sanitation and healthcare.