Sunday, July 15, 2018

Expanding Work Requirements in Non-Cash Welfare Programs

This is the government document in which the Trump Administration claims "by a certain measure of Americans' buying power that includes both labor income and government assistance, poverty in the United States has nearly disappeared since President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a “war on poverty” more than 50 years ago."  It can be found here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Expanding-Work-Requirements-in-Non-Cash-Welfare-Programs.pdf

There are roughly 1,350 sites in the U.S. that are federal government document depositories; I don't have numbers as to how many of those are public and academic libraries, but a good deal of them are.

I can tell you there are 44 United Nations government documents depositories in the U.S. (almost all of them academic; I think there's one or two public libraries). So there are much fewer libraries in the country where you can access the UN report that says about 12% of the U.S. lives in poverty and the U.S. "leads the developed world in income and wealth inequality."  That report can be found here: http://undocs.org/A/HRC/38/33/ADD.1

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