United Nations official visiting Alabama to investigate 'great poverty and inequality'

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United Nations official visiting Alabama to investigate 'great poverty and inequality'
Updated 11:49 AM; Posted 8:17 AM
By Connor Sheets csheets@al.com
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/united_nations_official_visiti.html#incart_river_home

A United Nations official arrives in Alabama this week to investigate poverty, inequality and "barriers to political participation" in the state.

Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, will visit Alabama on Thursday and Friday as part of a 15-day tour of the U.S. that also includes stops in California, West Virginia, Puerto Rico, Atlanta and Washington, D.C.

"Some might ask why a UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights would visit a country as rich as the United States. But despite great wealth in the US, there also exists great poverty and inequality," Alston said in a statement.

Alston will spend Thursday in Lowndes County, where he will be looking at issues like health care, access to clean and safe drinking water, and sanitation.

The Guardian reported in September on a study exposing the fact that a small number of people have tested positive for hookworm - a parasitic disease found in impoverished areas around the world - in Lowndes County.

During his Alabama visit, he will also look at voting rights, political participation and "government efforts to eradicate poverty in the country, and how they relate to US obligations under international human rights law."

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[RetBobbyMI]

The county sheriff should give him a warm Alabama welcome and directly tell him...son, I advise ya to get back on that plane and go back to Naw York. If ya don’t, I have a chane gang I’ll show ya up close and personal. Ya hear me boy?

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The county sheriff should give him a warm Alabama welcome and directly tell him...son, I advise ya to get back on that plane and go back to Naw York. If ya don’t, I have a chane gang I’ll show ya up close and personal. Ya hear me boy?

Should also cut off all the federal funds flowing to Alabama until they grow up and stop just dumping people onto Disability... like in Hale County — where one out of every four working-age adults is on disability!
 https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/490/trends-with-benefit