Debunked! The UN’s Propaganda About ‘Extreme Poverty’ in U.S
Jul 23, 2018 4:49:30 GMT -5
Post by avordvet on Jul 23, 2018 4:49:30 GMT -5
Don’t Believe the UN’s Propaganda About ‘Extreme Poverty’ in the US
Jamie Bryan Hall, July 17, 2018
Robert Rector, a leading authority on poverty, welfare programs and immigration in America for three decades, is The Heritage Foundation’s senior research fellow in domestic policy.
Philip Alston, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, recently reported that in the United States, “about 40 million live in poverty, 18.5 million in extreme poverty, and 5.3 million live in third-world conditions of absolute poverty.”
He further argued before the U.N. Human Rights Commission that “one of the world’s wealthiest countries does very little about the fact that 40 million of its citizens live in poverty.”
He is wrong on all counts.
Such claims do have a veneer of legitimacy, however, because when compiling the U.S. government’s official poverty statistics, the Census Bureau considers only the cash income each family reports in an annual survey.
These “official” income figures exclude substantial off-the-books earnings among low-income households and omit roughly 95 percent of the $1.1 trillion U.S. taxpayers provide in means-tested cash, food, housing, and medical benefits for low-income persons each year.
Fortunately, the Census Bureau also conducts, on behalf of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a survey of household expenditures, in which families are asked to report how much money they spend each month on each of up to 594 categories of purchases. Poor families routinely report spending an average of $2.40 for each dollar of official cash income.
From these spending data, we are able to calculate alternative poverty metrics that are more representative of true living conditions.
www.dailysignal.com/2018/07/17/dont-believe-the-uns-propaganda-about-extreme-poverty-in-the-us/
Jamie Bryan Hall, July 17, 2018
Robert Rector, a leading authority on poverty, welfare programs and immigration in America for three decades, is The Heritage Foundation’s senior research fellow in domestic policy.
Philip Alston, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, recently reported that in the United States, “about 40 million live in poverty, 18.5 million in extreme poverty, and 5.3 million live in third-world conditions of absolute poverty.”
He further argued before the U.N. Human Rights Commission that “one of the world’s wealthiest countries does very little about the fact that 40 million of its citizens live in poverty.”
He is wrong on all counts.
Such claims do have a veneer of legitimacy, however, because when compiling the U.S. government’s official poverty statistics, the Census Bureau considers only the cash income each family reports in an annual survey.
These “official” income figures exclude substantial off-the-books earnings among low-income households and omit roughly 95 percent of the $1.1 trillion U.S. taxpayers provide in means-tested cash, food, housing, and medical benefits for low-income persons each year.
Fortunately, the Census Bureau also conducts, on behalf of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a survey of household expenditures, in which families are asked to report how much money they spend each month on each of up to 594 categories of purchases. Poor families routinely report spending an average of $2.40 for each dollar of official cash income.
From these spending data, we are able to calculate alternative poverty metrics that are more representative of true living conditions.
www.dailysignal.com/2018/07/17/dont-believe-the-uns-propaganda-about-extreme-poverty-in-the-us/