Tuesday 21 March 2023

Private opulence, public squalor: How the U.S. helps the rich and hurts the poor

An unhoused individual sleeps under an American flag blanket in New York City on Sept. 10, 2013. In 2021, approximately 11% of Americans lived below the federal poverty line.

Poverty, by America author Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year: "That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty."

(Image credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)



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