UN expert calls US income inequality ‘a political choice’
“A U.N.-supported human rights expert has blasted the yawning gap between rich and poor in the United States, insisting in a new report that the world’s richest country ‘is now moving full steam ahead to make itself even more unequal.’ The United Nations’ human rights office said Monday that Philip Alston, an independent expert commissioned to examine ‘extreme’ poverty, prepared a report on the U.S. that faults ‘successive administrations’ in Washington for failing to uphold treaty commitments to economic and social rights.”