Plight of the very poor is an American tragedy
“Average Americans didn’t need a United Nations special report on poverty in the U.S. to learn that theirs has become a pyramidlike society of extreme wealth at the top and extreme poverty for millions at the bottom. But a valuable new U.N. report that triggered outrage in the administration of President Donald Trump last month disclosed that 40 million Americans live in poverty, with 18 million in ‘extreme poverty.’ It labeled the U.S. the most unequal country in the developed world — a humiliating label for a nation that also is the world’s richest and most powerful.”