Addendae
Criminalizing Poverty: America’s War Against the Poor
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/04/criminalizing-poverty-americas-war-against-the-poor
* poverty affects 37.9 million Americans incl. 11 million children
* tendency in U.S. to treat poverty as if it were leprosy, a contagious disease to be avoided by good & healthy people
* seeing rise of a “war on poverty” - e.g. laws by both conservative/liberal local governments criminalize panhandling
#poverty #homelessness #WealthInequality #capitalism #discrimination #PovertyIndustrialComplex #debt