#poverty rates

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so who had the government violating human rights law because they hate poor people on their 2023 tory bingo?

yeah so this piece by robert booth just got published in the guardian and it begins as such:

which is not at all surprising because yeah the government really hates poor people here. like as in one of the "solutions" to rising in homelessness in cities is to just,, buy unhoused people a one way train ticket to somewhere else.

its good to know that weve officially reached the level of violating international law. and by good, i dont know what i mean either.

anyway, booth goes on to say:

he is, of course, incredibly correct, and im highkey obsessed with him calling the welfare state "a leaking bucket".

obviously, the government gave a response of:

but did also go on to say this:

which doesnt really strengthen their argument. if anything, it actively hampers it.

it is also incredibly funny that the government's response to being accused of human rights violations due to the poverty in their country by the guy whose job involves being the go-to expert on human rights and poverty is akin to a child saying they didnt steal the chocolate that is staining their clothes and their hands and also they are still eating it.

please join me in pointing and laughing. at least, we have that.

de schutter actually offers solutions of his own within the article:

these, of course, famously being loved by tories. loved so much that they just forgot to do any of it during the last 13 years.

yeah, its been 13 fucking years.

if you dont use your vote to vote them out at the next general election, i will break your kneecaps with a rounders bat.

anyway, robert booth finishes the article off with:

and wheres the fucking lie? it hits the nail on the head so accurately, its honestly as impressing as it is depressing.

obviously, this isnt the entire article and i would implore you to read all of it.

i dont exactly have my hopes up for the government actually doing anything to effectively address poverty, but hey, you never know.

#uk #uk politics #ukpol #britpol #british politics #tories #poverty rates #the un #fuck tories #robert booth #the guardian #olivier de schutter #philip alston #universal credit #conservatives #austerity #hell country #long post

[bighermie]

#household income #poverty rates #income inequality #u.s. census bureau

[povertyeradicationday]

End extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity

Since You Asked: How does the World Bank Group measure poverty? The World Bank Group’s mission is to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity. In order to monitor progress and understand the types of poverty reduction strategies that could work, it is important to measure poverty regularly.

#poverty lines #low-income countries #purchasing power parities #International Poverty line #poverty alleviation #International Comparison Program (ICP) #poverty estimates #Poverty rates #Multidimensional poverty #$1.90 a day

[arctic-hands]

#this type of class division fascinates the hell out of me #my bestie went like every year my roommate went twice and I've never been #which fits up with the fact that bestie went to private school where soldiers never came to recruit #roommate went to a middle class public school where soldiers didn't come to recruit until junior year #and I went to a sixty percent poverty rate school where soldiers were coming to propagandize to us in fourth grade

[internationaldayoffamilies]

Number of people living in absolute poverty.

POVERTY.

#Sustainable Development Goal 1 #sdg1 #children #Infant #newborn #poverty rates #absolute poverty #families #International Day of Families

[medusamagic]

I need people to recognize that saying "I'd fuck/get fucked by a trans woman" is a stance that quite a few far-right folks have. You're not special for saying the quiet part loud. If you want me to believe that you actually care about trans women, say something when we try to call attention to issues that affect us.

#transphobia #transmisogyny #for the record #I'm not just referring to the predstrogen situation #though that really fucking sucks #trans women have been complaining about being shadowbanned over tame/sfw stuff for years #and no one listened until it was too obvious to deny #but even then smear campaigns are happening to trans women all over the place #including on tumblr right as you speak #trans women experience disproportionate rates of poverty #trans women are denied access to rape shelters because we're seen as intrinsically predatory #despite experiencing disproportionate amounts of rape #and yet for so many of you activism begins and ends with 'being a chaser on main' #please #I'm just begging to be heard #vent

[factcheckdotorg]

Biden's Numbers, October 2023 Update

Today we take a look at the most recent statistical measures of how the U.S. has changed since President Biden took office.

#joe biden #immigration #health insurance #jobs #job openings #unemployment rate #refugees #corporate profits #food stamps #poverty #carbon emissions #guns #stock markets #oil production #crime

[2700k-moogie]

ive been watching a lot of Cities: Skylines 2 playthroughs lately and i saw one guy do this to "incentivize the poor people to get richer" and then like 2 episodes later undid it. and he was like "this must be a bug" because the poverty levels in his city didn't really change?? Excuse me???

#mogimage #mogtext #actually come to think of it i don't think ive seen people subsidize low wealth cims. like at all. even though that's an option #because you know if you're wondering why everyone's complaining about taxes maybe your impoverished guys shouldn't be at 17% tax rate #“but what if they don't get out of poverty because they're being paid to be poor” you are falling for the TRAP #anyway another thing that's amusing in all of these playthroughs is that these guys build police stations instead of addressing #the structural reasons that incentivize crime #like idk maybe that 25% unemployment rate has something to do with that crime #and it's funny because the police departments don't really affect the probability of the crime succeeding #rather only the probability of doing crime #sooooo take that as you will

[odinsblog]

This new statistic is just completely heartbreaking and deeply disappointing. It's also a specific choice. A spike in child poverty like this didn't need to happen. Congress had the chance to extend these programs that would keep our children fed and boost working families out of poverty. But it didn't. It's shameful. In the richest country in the world, no child should have to go through this. And now it's on us to fix this problem that shouldn't have been created in the first place.

—John Fetterman, on the new child poverty statistics caused by allowing pandemic response programs to expire

#politics #john fetterman #poverty #child poverty #food insecurity #hunger #child poverty rates #child tax credits

[awetistic-things]

white people : “black people have higher crime rates than any other race in america !!!”

#redlining #the answer is RIGHT there #surprise surprise when u purposely induce poverty onto an entire race of people the crime rates rise #like obviously that’s going to happen #along with food deserts being primarily in black neighborhoods #racism #tw racism #tw antiblackness

[gently-folded-paper-cranes]

this world would actually be so much more advanced and would have so much more culture if americans didnt come and fuck it up

#i obv dont mean ALL white ppl #but like #colonization has been going on for CENTURIES #and for what bro like #look at Gaza #the amount of amazing books there the poetry the tradtion and culture being wiped away because usa cannot stand to stop israel???? #like i think america is an actual joke of a country #like look at colonisation and list me the benefits of it. nothing #theres ntg??? like wtf nothing good has come from colonizing #look at congo. sudan. all the culture #america has big talk but compared to anywhere else it is just a stolen land full of thieves #check their literacy rate their poverty rate #how do u call it a developed country??

[without-ado]

The "new normal"

l Ben Jennings

#art #cartoon #ben jennings #cartoons #economic crisis #poverty #interest rates #unemployment #living costs #pandemic

[povertyeradicationday]

An Adjustment to Global Poverty Lines.

The World Bank updated the global poverty lines in September 2022. The decision, announced in May, follows the release in 2020 of new purchasing power parities (PPPs)—the main data used to convert different currencies into a common, comparable unit and account for price differences across countries. The new extreme poverty line of $2.15 per person per day, which replaces the $1.90 poverty line, is based on 2017 PPPs. Here you find more information about this change and what it means for measuring global poverty.

#poverty lines #low-income countries #purchasing power parities #International Poverty line #poverty alleviation #International Comparison Program (ICP) #poverty estimates #Poverty rates #Multidimensional poverty

[salamie-baby]

Im so excited for season of home ownership but please please PLEASE tell me the furniture items aren't going to all cost hearts in the release my wallet is already ruined I've been trying to save up for the purple base cape for months and things keep COSTING MONEY

#sky: cotl #sky children of the light #that sky game #sky cotl #skyblr #sky: children of the light #I will actually drive a bus into tgc hq at this rate #I'm sorry I love your game you guys are great but I am BELOW THE POVERTY LINE #I JUST WANT NICE THINGS PLEASE :(

[internationaldayoffamilies]

The poorest children are more likely to die before age 5 than the richest children.

CHILD MORTALITY.

#social inequality #multidimentional poverty #poverty rates #families #children #International Day of Families

[workersolidarity]

From 1990 to 2019, the People's Republic of China has gone from a Poverty rate of 99%, to a poverty rate of less than 25% in just 29 years.

And just in the period of time Xi Jinping has been General Secretary of Communist Party of China, or the CPC, the Poverty rate in China has halved.

Poverty in that time in the US has been highly unequally distributed, with poverty rates increasing in some areas, decreasing in others, but largely remaining in similar territory since the 1970's. But the larger context shows a considerable destruction of wealth depending on when you were born with poverty rates lowest for those 65 and over, with much higher poverty rates among children.

The pattern suggests a dichotomy between the rapid rise of China and its attending decline in poverty, versus a slowly declining United States and the associated increases in poverty on younger generations. Though again, it depends largely on the state in which you live and how much your state invests in anti-poverty programs.

#rise of china #poverty in china #poverty in the us #poverty in america #poverty #poverty rate #fighting poverty #china news #us vs china #neoliberalism #us imperialism #us hegemony #us empire #empire in decline #socialism #communism #marxism leninism #socialist politics #socialist worker #socialist news #socialist #communist #marxism #marxist leninist #progressive politics #politics #us politics #us news #us poverty #neoliberal capitalism