AI6YR Ben
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

This:

"Reports of lawlessness spread, but Honoré said that people confused looting with survival. He criticized how law enforcement responded: "This pre-notion that the poor is going to loot, it's a sad commentary but it's built into our culture," he said. "In some cases, adjacent parishes and municipalities blocked people from coming in because they said these people are going to come and loot our stuff."

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AI6YR Ben
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

This:

"Reports of lawlessness spread, but Honoré said that people confused looting with survival. He criticized how law enforcement responded: "This pre-notion that the poor is going to loot, it's a sad commentary but it's built into our culture," he said. "In some cases, adjacent parishes and municipalities blocked people from coming in because they said these people are going to come and loot our stuff."

#disasters #poverty #katrina
Nathaniel Gregory
@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

First, progress is slower than we thought. Between 1980 & 2011, global extreme #poverty declined by only six percentage points, from 23% to 17%. During the same period, the number of people in extreme poverty actually increased, from 1.01 billion to 1.20 billion.

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Nathaniel Gregory
@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Second, #poverty alleviation has not been steady. In the 1990's the poverty rate increased dramatically, during the period when #neoliberal structural adjustment programmes were imposed on many developing countries.

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Nathaniel Gregory
@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

The BNPL data indicates that the story of global #poverty over the past few decades is more complex – & more troubling – than we previously understood. There are three major findings.

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Nathaniel Gregory
@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

First, progress is slower than we thought. Between 1980 & 2011, global extreme #poverty declined by only six percentage points, from 23% to 17%. During the same period, the number of people in extreme poverty actually increased, from 1.01 billion to 1.20 billion.

#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#Vance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#USA#ElonMusk#Musk#Fascism#Fascist