Parts of the United States are as poor as the Third World, according to a shocking United Nations report on global inequality.
Claims that the New Orleans floods have laid bare a growing racial and economic divide in the US have, until now, been rejected by the American political establishment as emotional rhetoric. But yesterday's UN report provides statistical proof that for many - well beyond those affected by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - the great American Dream is an ongoing nightmare.
The document constitutes a stinging attack on US policies at home and abroad
some of the details that come out
Child mortality is on the rise in the United States
The infant mortality rate in the US is now the same as in Malaysia
Blacks in Washington DC have a higher infant death rate than people in the Indian state of Kerala
Hispanic Americans are more than twice as likely as white Americans to have no health coverage
Child poverty rates in the United States are now more than 20 per cent
Left I on The News also notes that while american media outlets covered the report, they faild to mention just how badly the US faired when compaired to 3RD WORLD NATIONS.
This information is not just accademic. The results are seen in who died and who suffered in the Gulf.
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