UN preaching at us again

World Peace Herald:

"... social discrimination has aggravated the problems in many situations resulting in poverty clearly seen as a violation of human rights,' said Arjun Sengupta, the independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty of UNHCR."

UNHCR is the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. This report comes from the UN Commission on Human Rights which should be abbreviated UNCHR or UNHRC, not UNHCR as it appears in this article.

As for the substance of the report, based largely on visits to NYC, Florida immigrant farmworkers and post-Katrina New Orleans, it is the usual nonsense. For example, there is no mention of how the lives of our 12.7 percent in poverty relate to the lives of persons classified as poor in other countries.

Also, differences in poverty rates between ethnic/racial groups appear to be assigned to racist actions of government and society with no consideration of such issues as crime rates and marriage rates which have been shown to be very significant factors. White families which do not marry and commit crimes experience economic outcomes more like Black families which share those behaviors than like other Whites who do not share those behaviors. Similarly, Black families where parents marry and members refrain from criminal activity acheive economic outcomes more similar to White families who behave this way than to Black families who do not.