Austerity Rules as Trump Claims ‘Success’ in War on Poverty.
“In fact, today the poor are invisible again and when discussed, it is rarely as dignified people, but as caricatures and statistics. They have returned to their otherness. Throughout this century, America has coasted on the global reputation we earned, to some extent, in the last century as the nation developed an enviable economic system to extend the middle class and, over time, to extend civil rights to groups we had deprived of them. We identified and solve problems and fulfilled promises of hope.”