Alabama Has The Worst Poverty In The Developed World

[Cypress]

No other developed nation on the planet would tolerate such shocking disparity between extraordinary wealth, and crushing poverty.

Alabama Has The Worst Poverty In The Developed World, U.N. Official Reports

A United Nations official investigating poverty in the United States was shocked at the level of environmental degradation in some areas of rural Alabama, saying he had never seen anything like it in the developed world.

"I think it's very uncommon in the First World. This is not a sight that one normally sees. I'd have to say that I haven't seen this," Philip Alston, the U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, told Connor Sheets of AL.com earlier this week as they toured a community in Butler County where raw sewage flows from homes through exposed PVC pipes and into open trenches and pits.

The tour through Alabama's rural communities is part of a two-week investigation by the U.N. on poverty and human rights abuses in the United States. So far, U.N. investigators have visited cities and towns in California and Alabama, and will soon travel to Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia.

Despite these concerns, the Republican Party, which controls all three branches of the federal government, is on course to pass a tax bill before the end of the year that will increase the federal deficit by $1 trillion in 10 years--costs that the GOP says will be offset by reducing an already-weakened social safety net.

For Alston, these political decisions are at the root of systemic poverty in the U.S.

“The idea of human rights is that people have basic dignity and that it’s the role of the government — yes, the government! — to ensure that no one falls below the decent level,” he said. “Civilized society doesn’t say for people to go and make it on your own and if you can’t, bad luck.”

“Politicians who say, ‘there’s nothing I can do about that’ are simply wrong,” Alston told WKMS 91.3.

full article http://www.newsweek.com/alabama-un-p...-racism-743601

[blackascoal]

Republicans control 9 out of 10 poorest states, and 97 out of 100 poorest counties in the US.

... fucking amazing

[canceled.2021.3]

It will be OK


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[katzgar]

and if they vote for Moore businesses will leave the state

[archives]

Moore's election sure isn't going to help the State's image

[cawacko]

Environmental degradation? Hell have they been to Oakland?

[cawacko]

Republicans control 9 out of 10 poorest states, and 97 out of 100 poorest counties in the US.

... fucking amazing

Rural poverty. Urban poverty offset by surrounding wealth

[Cypress]

Republicans control 9 out of 10 poorest states, and 97 out of 100 poorest counties in the US.

... fucking amazing

Unsurprising. From what I have heard from message board republicans, the core premise of conservatism is basically a sort of social Darwinism - it's every man for himself, and fuck everyone else.

[cawacko]

Unsurprising. From what I have heard from message board republicans, the core premise of conservatism is basically a sort of social Darwinism - it's every man for himself, and fuck everyone else.

How do we have the highest poverty rate in California if we are so compassionate and caring then?

[Cypress]

Environmental degradation? Hell have they been to Oakland?

I've been to Oakland, and while it has its share of problems, I have never seen anything like this there:

U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, told Connor Sheets of AL.com earlier this week as they toured a community in Butler County where raw sewage flows from homes through exposed PVC pipes and into open trenches and pits.

That speaks to what the UN dude is saying: this is the kind of stuff that is really not seen in developed nations. This is the kind of thing you might see in the developing world. And even then, only in the worst, most impoverished areas.


It is inexcusable to have this kind of poverty in our great nation. Just my opinion, but not sure if conservatives share it.

[blackascoal]

Rural poverty. Urban poverty offset by surrounding wealth

Hasn't got a damn thing to do with the fact that republicans control the poorest states and counties in America.

90% of the poorest states, 97% of the poorest counties.

[ThatOwlWoman]

No other developed nation on the planet would tolerate such shocking disparity between extraordinary wealth, and crushing poverty.
full article http://www.newsweek.com/alabama-un-p...-racism-743601

That's not poverty. That's freedom. Don't you know freedom when you see and smell it?

Some parts of Appalachia are as bad if not worse. Thought I would throw that in there so the haters won't claim that the Alabama folks are that way because of race.

[Sailor]

I've been to Oakland, and while it has its share of problems, I have never seen anything like this there:



That speaks to what the UN dude is saying: this is the kind of stuff that is really not seen in developed nations. This is the kind of thing you might see in the developing world. And even then, only in the worst, most impoverished areas.


It is inexcusable to have this kind of poverty in our great nation. Just my opinion, but not sure if conservatives share it.

This sentiment rises above political affiliation or ideology in this country. Fairly sure no one wants to see it here.

[cawacko]

Hasn't got a damn thing to do with the fact that republicans control the poorest states and counties in America.

90% of the poorest states, 97% of the poorest counties.

Actually it has everything to do with it. Urban wealth skews the level of urban poverty in these numbers so you come up with the statistic you have

[blackascoal]

Actually it has everything to do with it. Urban wealth skews the level of urban poverty in these numbers so you come up with the statistic you have

It has everything to do with poor whites voting for a party that doesn't give a fuck about them.

Alabama is like a third world country, but you'd rather blame it on geography.

:0) Incredible