{"id":365580,"date":"2018-06-15T23:59:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T22:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-administration-is-intentionally-exacerbating-inequality\/"},"modified":"2018-06-15T23:59:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T22:59:40","slug":"trump-administration-is-intentionally-exacerbating-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-administration-is-intentionally-exacerbating-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Is Intentionally Exacerbating Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A group of top Democrats are demanding the Trump administration present a plan to Congress to address growing poverty in the United States, following an excoriating report by the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip Alston. Alston slammed the Trump administration\u2019s policies for worsening the state of poverty in the United States. The report details how 40 million Americans live in poverty, and 18.5 million Americans live in extreme poverty. It also details how the United States has the highest rate of income inequality among Western countries and one of the lowest rates of intergenerational social mobility. We speak with Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty. He will be presenting his report next week in Geneva.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">AMY<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"caps\">GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>A group of top Democrats are demanding the Trump administration present a plan to Congress to address mounting levels of poverty in the United States, following an excoriating<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/undocs.org\/A\/HRC\/38\/33\/ADD.1\">report<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>by the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty. In the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/4502348-Congressional-Letter-to-Ambassador-Haley.html\">letter<\/a>, sent to US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey and other top lawmakers write, quote, \u201cWe believe the massive levels of deprivation outlined in the report\u2014as well as the [immense] suffering this deprivation causes\u2014are an affront to any notion of the unalienable rights to [life], liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,\u201d unquote.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty Philip Alston slammed the Trump administration\u2019s policies for worsening the state of poverty in the United States. The report states, \u201c[T]he policies pursued over the past year seem deliberately designed to remove basic protections from the poorest, punish those who are not in employment and make even basic health care into a privilege to be earned rather than a right of citizenship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report details how 40 million&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/blistering-un-report-trump-administrations-policies-designed-to-worsen-poverty-and-inequality\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of top Democrats are demanding the Trump administration present a plan to Congress to address growing poverty in the United States, following an excoriating report by the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip Alston. Alston slammed the Trump administration\u2019s policies for worsening the state of poverty in the United States. The [&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-365580","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\/365580","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=365580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}