UN Report: America is 3rd World

41 million living in poverty. 80 percent of U.S. adults face near-poverty, unemployment.

Poverty in the United States is extensive and is deepening under the Trump administration whose policies seem aimed at removing the safety net from millions of poor, while rewarding the rich, a UN human rights investigator has found.

Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty, called on US authorities to provide solid social protection and address underlying problems, rather than "punishing and imprisoning the poor".

At the end of the day, however, particularly in a rich country, the persistence of extreme poverty is a political choice made by those in power,"

While welfare benefits and access to health insurance are being slashed, US President Donald Trump's tax reform has awarded "financial windfalls" to the mega-rich and large companies, further increasing inequality, he said in a report.

"Its citizens live shorter and sicker lives compared to those living in all other rich democracies, eradicable tropical diseases are increasingly prevalent and it has the world's highest incarceration rate...and the highest obesity levels in the developed world,"

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Fake news. US got historically lowest unemployment rate with Trump

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Jobs that pay poverty wages, not enough to pay rent and eat

if only you knew how skewed and deceiving our unemployment statistics are

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>The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers.

>The U-3 unemployment rate is the monthly headline number. The U-6 unemployment rate is the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) broadest unemployment measure, including short-term discouraged and other marginally-attached workers as well as those forced to work part-time because they cannot find full-time employment.

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Every country does this. Ours is only low because we count loads of dog shit quasi-jobs toward the figure.

>that crust from bread
The most tasty part

Why is the Finn so obsessed?

I know many western countries do this, I just had to call out Ivan who thinks life here is peachy

>finnposting
trash

>eat Doritos which is hard
>don't eat bread crust which is softer than Doritos

It's not a Finn, it's a Swedish communist who's studying in Finland.

U-6 is up too, can't use that argument anymore

i mean down whatever

>80 percent of U.S. adults face near-poverty, unemployment.
That's nowhere in the article you lying Finn

as long as the poverty is concentrated among ethnics, i'm fine with it.

"Contempt for the poor in US drives cruel policies,” says UN expert

GENEVA (4 June 2018) – The United States’ principal strategy for dealing with extreme poverty is to criminalise and stigmatise those in need of assistance, a report by a UN independent expert has found.

“For one of the world’s wealthiest countries to have 40 million people living in poverty and over five million living in ‘Third World’ conditions is cruel and inhuman,”

“The Trump Administration has brought in massive tax breaks for corporations and the very wealthy, while orchestrating a systematic assault on the welfare system,” he said. “The strategy seems to be tailor-made to maximize inequality and to plunge millions of working Americans, and those unable to work, into penury.

“Locking up the poor precisely because they are poor, greatly exaggerating the amount of fraud in the system, shaming those who need assistance, and devising ever more obstacles to prevent people from getting needed benefits, is not a strategy to reduce or eliminate poverty.

“It seems driven primarily by contempt, and sometimes even by hatred for the poor, along with a ‘winner takes all’ mentality”, said the independent human rights expert appointed by the Human Rights Council to look at poverty and human rights in countries around the world.

“The evidence is everywhere. On Skid Row in Los Angeles, 14,000 homeless persons were arrested in 2016, including for urinating in public and other "quality of life" offences, while overall arrests in the city were declining. For those wondering what the problem is, the answer is not hard to find. In 2016 there were only nine public toilets available for some 1,800 homeless individuals on Skid Row. The resulting ratio of one public toilet per 200 individuals would not even meet the minimum standards the UN sets for Syrian refugee camps.

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Yeah but american poverty rate is finnish net median income

this

poor in the USA is average in Russia, LA, Asia, and wealthy in Africa

u6 still doesnt count long term discouraged workers. also both u6 and u3 counts a person with multiple part time jobs as multiple fully employed people

>lazy people are poor

no shit! if they worked hard they would billionaires like any wealthy person in the usa but it's easier to complain and eat doritos

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Will America collapse?

This. Every American could be the richest person on the planet if they worked harder

>muh bootstraps

shitty meme