Nervous officials in Marseille evacuated 1,054 people after a building collapse killed eight in a poor neighborhood. But many more homes are in danger of crumbling, and people live in fear.
Tag: Poverty
British Austerity Is ‘Inflicting Unnecessary Misery,’ U.N. Poverty Expert Says
Conservative policies are directly linked to a rise in poverty, and the country’s leadership is in “a state of denial.”
U.N.’s Expert on ‘Extreme Poverty’ Is Investigating Britain. Why?
Normally, Philip Alston spends his time in the developing world. But the United Nations expert on extreme poverty sees Britain as the ideal test case of the effects of “self-imposed austerity.”