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The U.S. Visit by the Special Rapporteur for Extreme Poverty and Human RightsDiscussion with Professor Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, on the observations and conclusions from his country visit to the United States in December 2017.  We discuss the political nature of poverty, its inextricable link to rising inequality in the United States and the overt and covert disenfranchisement of the extremely poor. We also discuss punitive policies towards the poor, including Jane Crow laws and the criminalization of homelessness and the prevalence of caricatured, pejorative narratives of the poor that perpetuate inequality. Additionally, we discuss the effective denial of constitutional rights to those in poverty, including through the criminal justice system.For More Info:http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22533http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Poverty/Pages/SRExtremePovertyIndex.aspxhttp://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Poverty/Pages/CountryVisits.aspxhttp://hdr.undp.org/en/content/assessing-multidimensional-poverty-%E2%80%93-one-index-global-levelhttps://inequality.stanford.edu/https://inequality.stanford.edu/publications/20-facts-about-us-inequality-everyone-should-knowhttps://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdfhttp://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CESCR.aspxhttp://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/ccpr.aspx