Even if you are lucky enough to live in a wealthy country, one of the biggest influences on your health and life expectancy will be your socioeconomic status.
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Trump’s America: poor targeted, red carpet for wealthiest tax avoiders – Michael West
While Trump’s tax affairs have been widely reported, statistics show that US authorities are going after the poorest families. Just seven of the 23,400 households earning on average $30 million were audited (0.03%). Yet more than a third of households earning an average $12,600 were audited – nine times the rate for the richest. David Cay Johnston reports.
Trump’s America: poor targeted, red carpet for wealthiest tax avoiders – Michael West
Scott Morrison’s ‘have a go, get a go’ mantra was untrue when he first said it but its invocation in recession is even more absurd
Australia’s leaders don’t even try to understand the working poor | Poverty | The Guardian
It is the wealthiest Australians who enjoy the most support.
Right-wing media have a plan to solve the national crisis of poverty in America — and it’s all about “personal responsibility.”
Roughly 45 million Americans live in poverty, 1 in 7 received food stamps just last year, and 20 percent of children under the age of 18 were impoverished in 2013. Politicians and media figures have offered many possible solutions to help low-income Americans break free from this systemic cycle of inequality, including expanding the social safety net and educational opportunities for all.
But over the years, conservative media have offered their own strategies. Watch as Media Matters looks back at the five easy steps they’ve proposed to help Americans living paycheck to paycheck find that “richness of spirit”:
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