Singing in America 

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The rich in America enjoy human rights. The rest of can imagine that they sing as they enjoy their rights -- :

Housing. ♫

Healthcare. ♫

Decent job. ♫

Good income. ♫

Food. ♫

Education for their children ♫

Besides that they enjoy: Clean water. ♫ Security in old age. ♫ Opportunities to enjoy culture. ♫ Benefits from science. ♫

We can say that these rights that the rich enjoy have been stolen from the rest of us – ordinary men and women. It is quite clear in international law that these are everybody’s rights. Just as we have inequality of wealth in America, we have inequality in the realization of human rights. 

But how much inequality is there?

America suffers from extreme inequalities. In  2001, the top 1% of households owned 33.4% of all privately held wealth. More details can be found on Professor Domhoff’s webpage.

Those who are poor in the United States are denied their fundamental rights to live fully as human beings in the richest country in the entire world.  Singing joyfully is probably not the first thing on their minds. Below are some depressing facts:

►Housing: HUD reports that 3.5 million persons are likely to experience homelessness during a given yearand 40 percent of them will be children.

►Healthcare: Census data show that over 47 million Americans are uninsured,

►Decent job: A third of American workers, according The State of Working America, are in nonstandard jobs (not regular and not full-time)

►Good income: Forbes ran an article on the fastest growing jobs in America and  Wal-Mart came out on top.

►Food: 35.5 million people lived in households considered to be food insecure, with blacks and Latinos far higher than the national rate.

►Education: Jonathon Kozol describes the confoundedness of poverty, race and isolation in inner city schools: “In the typically colossal high schools of the  Bronx, for instance,  more than 90 percent of students (in most cases, more than 95 percent) are black or Hispanic.”

The moral of the story is clear enough – all Americans would join in the chorus were human rights to be distributed equitably, fairly, and lawfully.

♫  ♫ ♫  ♫

We would dance and sing for joy.

Comments

[MATILDASolis23]

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