A Scathing Report on Britain’s Treatment of the Poor

By artappraiser on Sat, 11/24/2018 - 6:47pm |

The rate of homelessness in the U.K. has increased by sixty per cent since 2010, and the number of rough sleepers has increased by a hundred and thirty-four per cent.

By Rebecca Mead @ NewYorker.com, Nov. 21

[....] Last week, a scourging indictment of Britain’s austerity policies was issued by Philip Alston, the special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights for the United Nations, who spent two weeks in the U.K. assessing the effects of the government’s efforts to curb public spending. In a lengthy report, Alston notes that the government’s claims about the effectiveness of austerity were contradicted by evidence on a wide range of indices [.....]

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https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-scathing-report-of-britains-treatment-of-the-poor