Poverty and Inequality in America under Trump: Human Rights under Threat

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26 June 2018 | The Trump Administration inherited an economy with the highest rate of income inequality in the Western world: 40 million people (one third of them children) live in poverty and one person in eight depends on food stamps. Following the presentation to the Human Rights Council on June 21 of a damning report on the United States by the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston, the panel discusses the human rights implications of these developments, especially in terms of gender and racial disparities and the functioning of American democracy.

Panel discussion:

- Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights and John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

- Catherine Flowers, Rural Development Manager, the Equal Justice Initiative and Director and Founder, Alabama Centre for Rural Enterprise

- Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

- Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Co-Chair, Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and Co-Director, Kairos Centre for Religions, Rights and Social Justice

Moderator:

- Ed Pilkington, Chief reporter, The Guardian US

Organised in partnership with the Guardian and the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
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"The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it." (George Carlin)

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Not one town or city in US where if you are working FT on fed min wage you could afford a 2 bedroom apt. Wow.

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"Free Market Capitalism" is still capitalism. When necessities such as education and health care continue their respective for-profit business model, then there will always be individuals who are marginalized. The declining number of family farms, infrastructure neglect, outsourcing in the manufacturing sector, and other de facto examples of ulterior profit motives to deflate the US economy are self evident.

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