Richard
Wolff reveals another shocking fact showing that poverty and
inequality have been growing continuously inside the obsolete
capitalist system.
A recent
study reveals that a disease related to poverty has returned to the
United States:
A study
carried out by the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor
College of Medicine, in conjunction with the Alabama Center for Rural
Enterprise (ACRE), found that a disease - associated throughout the
history of medicine with poverty - has resurfaced in the United
States, decades after it was officially announced to have been
eradicated.
The disease
is called Hookworm, an intestinal parasite that thrives on extreme
poverty.
The study
found that in the state of Alabama, which is where this study was
conducted, there are all kinds of incidences of Hookworm that we
thought we had eradicated. In a survey of people, living in Lowndes
County, which is a county in Alabama, an area with a long history of
racial discrimination and inequality, 34% of the people tested
positive for traces of Hookworm. A third of the people.
If you want
signs that the so-called economic recovery from the crash of 2008 has
been a very variegated business, some people, the rich and large have
recovered and the rest of us haven't, here is another statistic that
drives that point home. Poverty has returned of a kind we thought we
had eradicated, and with it, come diseases like Hookworm.
This is just
another index that destroys the fairy tale of the alleged prosperity
created by 'free market' capitalism.
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