Stigmabase | North America

Billionaires trying to fix US poverty are the sign of a failed system - As a recent UN report shows, America's poor are deeply isolated and kept at a distance not just from the very rich, but from the moderately comfortable. US inequality isn't a simple divide between urban and rural; even poor people who live and work next door are rendered invisible by the structure of ...

Billionaires trying to fix US poverty are the sign of a failed system - In December 2017, New York University law professor and United Nations consultant Philip Alston spent two weeks investigating poverty in the US . His report describes a parallel universe nested within the wealthiest nation of the world, one troubled by homelessness, debt, lack of sanitation, sickness, ...