"Next month, Donald Trump will welcome a poverty-stricken family to peruse his plans for a $300m glitzy state ballroom in the White House. The event will be staged as part of National Poverty in America Awareness Month, the time every year when charities document the number of US residents surviving on low incomes. Of course, the president will do no such thing, preferring to summon the press to watch him rub shoulders with the billionaire class as he did at last month's black tie dinner"
"US poverty levels matter in the UK and across continental Europe because the rising level of poverty in the States a trend that dates back to the turn of the century is the direct result of a particular form of capitalism that increasingly popular rightwing parties say should be adopted. Nigel Farage's Reform UK and Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives laud the US, but seem to care little about how it promotes a style of capitalism that leaves millions"
Donald Trump will stage a publicity event involving a poverty-stricken family while showcasing plans for a $300m White House ballroom and socialising with billionaires. The president is expected to ignore policy calls to reduce poverty and to dismiss awareness efforts, avoiding guilt. Rising US poverty since the turn of the century results from a specific form of capitalism promoted by popular rightwing parties in the UK. That style of capitalism produces opioid addiction, mental-health and obesity crises, lower government intervention than in Europe, and exports financial crashes whose global repair costs exceed the domestic burden.
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]