Poverty Is Political. These 3 Things Will Help Us Eliminate It.

This article relates to SDG 1 No Poverty.

“The poor are losers. It’s a refrain we often hear – sometimes from politicians, from the wealthy, and even from governments. The tragedy is that it’s true, only not in the way many elites think it is. Those who are living in poverty are losers in terms of human rights. They are the ones most likely to be murdered, beaten up by the police, sexually assaulted, and driven out of their homes, and the resources devoted to protecting them will generally be far fewer than that spent on protecting the well-off.

The poor are losers when it comes to the political process. They are discouraged and sometimes prevented from voting, and they have little real chance of expressing their opinions in ways that will be heard by the powerful because their “representatives” tend not to listen to people who have neither money nor clout.”

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