In December last year, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston, issued a statement on his 15-day fact-finding mission of some of the U.S.’s poorest neighborhoods. Alston, the
Poverty: American Style
“The American Dream is rapidly becoming the American illusion.”

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Kenneth Surin
Kenneth Surin teaches at Duke University, North Carolina. He lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.