UN report presented to Human Rights Council this week found in U.S.:

40M people live in poverty
18.5M live in extreme poverty
5M in absolute poverty

Calls U.S. most unequal country in developed world.

Means 1 of every 5 people in U.S. live in poverty!

fortune.com/2018/06/22/nik…
From The Guardian in December 2017...the #GOPTaxScam is only making it much, much worse.
theguardian.com/society/2017/d…
Under Trump/GOP, US becoming more & more destitute:

US has highest child mortality rate of 20 rich countries
US among highest child poverty rates in the developed world, at 21%
US also high obesity rates, income inequality and incarceration rates

cnn.com/2018/06/22/us/…
U.S. Dept of Ag reported:
~25% of children in rural U.S. were poor in 2016
~20% in urban U.S.
Highest concentrations of child poverty in MS Delta, Appalachia & Native American reservations.

➡️#GOPTaxScam will quickly exacerbate this.

npr.org/2018/05/31/615…
While many in urban/suburban areas struggle w/poverty, others are barely surviving from day-to-day.

Article w/photos taken between December 2016 - September 2017 offer stark portrait of America’s deepening inequality & division.

This is pre- #GOPTaxScam.
time.com/poorest-states…
THIS is just one example of how poverty affects people in urban areas. There are many, MANY more ways. Debtors' prisons are apparently being used again.

Get them down and keep them down, right, #CorruptGOP???

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Erik Paulsen is known for his "pop-up" sessions.
He suddenly pops up unannounced (or announced online mere minutes before it happens) in grocery store aisle for 10 minutes to talk to people. That's NOT accessible.

➡️That's another way of hiding from constituents.
#PaulsenFail
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➡️Those were NOT real town halls.
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➡️That's not being accessible.
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Zephyr's pretty amazing...I've been watching her for several years.
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* Tireless to root out corruption & 1 of first to support "little people."
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Guess those talks didn't go as well as they thought:
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#NorthKorea
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Guess this tweet was a "teeny" bit premature.
Trump gave NK everything they wanted and left with absolutely NOTHING.
2/
#AnotherTrumpFailure
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We have seen our country take a nosedive into becoming "Fourth Reich."

United States of America is now running internment camps.

Our concern now is all the children who are in these camps.

➡️So, where did they come from & why did their parents bring them here?

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Tornillo, TX is on US/Mexico border. There is “tent city facility” setup there. Facility is housing 326 children (312 boys, 14 girls):

162 from Guatemala

117 from Honduras

40 from El Salvador

4from “other countries”

3 from Mexico

2/

#Truth
SOURCE:
msnbc.com/craig-melvin/w…
So if less than 1% are from Mexico, why?

Reason - out of 195 countries:

El Salvador has 2nd highest rate of violent deaths.

Honduras has 4th highest rate of violent deaths.

Guatemala has 17th highest rate of violent deaths.

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#Immigrants

SOURCE:
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#ItsAllAboutProfit
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Where are the babies, the toddlers and the little girls?
Are those babies the ones that were sent to the adoption agencies?
Why isn't the Trump administration even TRYING to reunite these families?
Is there more profit in detaining them or adopting them out?
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President Ronald Reagan claimed he had no knowledge of their scheme. Wharton secretary acted as link between Wharton Dean, Russell Palmer, and Oliver North.
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