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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Insidious': Emails show Trump WH lied about US poverty levels to discredit critical UN report
Insidious: Emails show Trump White House lied about US poverty levels to discredit critical UN reportCOMMON DREAMS
03 AUG 2018 AT 11:09 ET
Infuriated by a scathing United Nations report estimating that over 18 million Americans are living in extreme poverty and accusing the Trump administration of deliberately making such destitution worse with its tax cuts for the rich, the White House insisted in its June response to the U.N. analysis that the United States is overflowing with prosperity and that claims of widespread poverty are exaggerated.
But internal State Department emails and documents obtained by Foreign Policy and the non-profit journalism website Coda Story show that the Trump administration ignored advice of White House economic analysts and knowingly lied to the public about the severity of American poverty, which the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Philip Alston described as shocking.
Foreign Policy reported on Thursday that officials who were consulted last-minute on a draft of the White Houses rebuttal of the U.N. findings questioned the accuracy of the data the administration was citing.
Despite the fact that the U.N. analysis cited government statistics to bolster its claims about poverty in America, the Trump administration opted to draw from a report by the right-wing Heritage Foundation, which concluded that 250,000 Americans are living in extreme povertya stark contrast to the U.N.s conclusion that the correct number is 18.25 million.
The Heritage report cited by the White House also concluded that the conditions of the poor must be improving because many families living in deep poverty own cell phones and DVD players.
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'Insidious': Emails show Trump WH lied about US poverty levels to discredit critical UN report (Original Post)
DonViejo
Aug 2018
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