How poverty and disease is impacting human rights in the American South
“At the end of 2017, Philip Alston, the United Nation’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights toured the United States and Puerto Rico. His goal was to turn a global lens on our nation in order to assess the depth and breadth of poverty in America, especially extreme poverty. Today few people are aware that we have as many as 19.4 million Americans who live at one-half the US poverty level and by some accounts more than a million U.S. families living below the World Bank poverty figure of $1.90 per day.”