The UN Gets Poverty All Wrong

Philip Alston, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty, has a bit of a record on such matters, as his report on poverty in the US showed. In his initial report, he tried to measure poverty without taking into account all the things the US government does do to reduce it, which really is not the way to do it. His second stab at it made a different mistake-it didn't try to measure poverty at all, it measured inequality.