The cheery claims of 'officials' and the policy community that capitalism, despite its 'problems', has global poverty on the run? An accounting fantasy unjustified by the facts, according to the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. #unitingtheglobalpoor
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Tweet from the Kairos Center today. Mississippi, with a black population over 33%, and West Virginia, 96% white, have life expectancies 4-5 years lower than the national average. The biggest similarity - they are the two #poorest states in the country. The same system keeping us poor is shaving years off our lives.
This sentence, in a 2021 US Federal Reserve document: “The primary role of mainstream economics in our society is to provide an apologetics for a criminally oppressive, unsustainable, and unjust social order." - Hildenbrand, 1994. Image: World Inequality Report 2022 @UniteThePoor
