U.N. Report: With 40 Million In Poverty, US Most UNEQUAL Developed Nation (2018)

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2. UN Special Reporter on Poverty, Philip Alston, Toured the US for 10 Days,

"Extreme Poverty In America: Read the UN Special Monitor's Report. Philp Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights spent 10 days touring America. This is the introduction to his report." The Guardian, Dec. 2018.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/15/extreme-poverty-america-un-special-monitor-report



- Philip Alston, UN reporter visits rural Alabama. In the US South, hookworm, a disease of extreme poverty is thriving.



Aaron Thigpen, a Fort Deposit, AL activist, shows UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston (left) a place in Lowndes County where 2 homes discharge raw sewage into an open-air pool via exposed PVC pipes. One home's water line runs right through the fetid area. (Connor Sheets | [e-mail])

> Touring Alabama's Black Belt, UN expert Philip Alston said, 'I haven't seen this in the First World.'

https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/un_poverty_official_touring_al.html



- Los Angeles, California Homeless People (file photo).

*UN Report Slams US For Criminalizing Poverty As Destitution Grows, DW/Deutsche Welle, 2018
https://www.dw.com/en/un-report-slams-us-for-criminalizing-poverty-as-destitution-grows/a-44053385