{"id":339653,"date":"2017-12-16T02:32:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T01:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-gop-turning-us-into-champion-of-inequality-un\/"},"modified":"2017-12-16T02:32:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T01:32:49","slug":"presstv-trump-gop-turning-us-into-champion-of-inequality-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-gop-turning-us-into-champion-of-inequality-un\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump, GOP turning US into champion of inequality: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump and the Republican leadership in Congress are turning the country into the &#8220;world champion of extreme inequality,&#8221;\u00a0warns the United Nations monitor on poverty and human rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The warning by Philip Alston, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, came in a devastating report on the condition of America following his two-week fact-finding visit to the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The US Congress is trying desperately to pass a tax bill that, if adopted, would represent the single most dramatic increase in inequality that could be imagined,&#8221; Alston told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The UN expert said that the tax reform bill backed by Trump will &#8220;shred crucial dimensions of a safety net that is already full of holes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has maintained that the tax overhaul would increase growth in the country and create more jobs and wealth.<\/p>\n<p>Alston, however, said the proposed cuts to social welfare programs will&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/12\/16\/545746\/UN-US-Donald-Trump-GOP-poverty\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump and the Republican leadership in Congress are turning the country into the &#8220;world champion of extreme inequality,&#8221;\u00a0warns the United Nations monitor on poverty and human rights. The warning by Philip Alston, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, came in a devastating report on the condition of America following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-339653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}