US IS a 'Shithole country': ALABAMA HAS THE WORST POVERTY IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD, U.N. OFFICIAL
https://www.newsweek.com/alabama-un-poverty-environmental-racism-743601"I think it's very uncommon in the First World. This is not a sight that one normally sees. I'd have to say that I haven't seen this," Philip Alston, the U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, told Connor Sheets of AL.com earlier this week as they toured a community in Butler County where "raw sewage flows from homes through exposed PVC pipes and into open trenches and pits."
The tour through Alabama's rural communities is part of a two-week investigation by the U.N. on poverty and human rights abuses in the United States. So far, U.N. investigators have visited cities and towns in California and Alabama, and will soon travel to Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia.
Of particular concern to Alston are specific poverty-related issues that have surfaced across the country in recent years, such as an outbreak of hookworm in Alabama in 2017—a disease typically found in nations with substandard sanitary conditions in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, as reported by The Guardian.
The U.N. investigation aims to study the effects of systemic poverty in a prosperous nation like the United States.
According to the Census Bureau, nearly 41 million people in the U.S. live in poverty. That's second-highest rate of poverty among rich countries, as measured by the percentage of people earning less than half the national median income, according to Quartz.
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if we were, healthcare would be a basic human right instead of being considered a luxury.
we spent 2.5 trillion dollars on the military according to don the con.
not like that money isn't needed for infrastructure, education, healthcare right here in the good ole U. S. of A. 
In your state, America's Dairyland you had a loss of 10% of the total # of dairy farms in 2019
because of Trump's trade war with China but many will stay with Trump because of abortion,
guns, and the 24/7 hate talk radio/Fox/other right wing sources that they have been fed ever
since Reagan got rid of the fairness doctrine.
https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-trade-war-wisconsin-dairy-farmers-china/
In rural/city/suburban poor areas such as Alabama, West Virginia, and other states the Jesus card is very
strong. And in those same poor areas "they" just don't let the blacks vote or have their votes counted
like White voters have their votes counted.
The Jesus/fundy vote is very strong because even though "they" can see Australia burning up in front
of their eyes their pastors tell them that global warming isn't true and they are just being shown "liberal
facts."
In N.E. Ohio the GM plant @ Lordstown was saved by Barack Obama but in 2016 you had a % of the
white male workers @ that plant vote for Trump.
But at the end of the day the GOP has to cheat to win. Even in traditional red states such as South Carolina.
S.C. is 35% African American & 11% and growing Hispanic those #s should make it really hard for republicans
to win state wide races but somehow they do.
sorry to 
counted openly and transparently in front of the entire precinct
I wonder what Nick Saban tastes like with some fava beans and a nice chianti. 
Other than that, they benefit...ummm.....zilch from the Crimson Tide. Particularly since the vast majority are merely sidewalk alumni.
https://www.newsweek.com/alabama-un-poverty-environmental-racism-743601
According to the Census Bureau, nearly 41 million people in the U.S. live in poverty. That's second-highest rate of poverty among rich countries, as measured by the percentage of people earning less than half the national median income, according to Quartz.......
https://www.newsweek.com/alabama-un-poverty-environmental-racism-743601
