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This is Philip Alston.  He is Australian, and is the United Nations's official monitor on extreme poverty and human rights.  I wish I had a better picture to share, but perhaps you will meet him soon, as he embarks on a tour of the United States, a dismal place to be unrich in 2017.  Mr. Alston and his colleagues will investigate homelessness in California, the lack of good industrial jobs in West Virginia, and the evaporation of the social safety net in the Deep South.  Normally they work in places like Haiti and Gabon, but 41 million Americans now live in poverty and they thought it was time to add us to the list.  According to the Guardian, source of this information, one-third of the people in Lowndes County are infected with hookworm.  They neglected to say which Lowndes County -- there are several, including Georgia and Tennessee -- but I suppose it doesn't really matter.  The newly-passed Republican tax bill means they will continue to be infected, because Medicaid is less important than a deduction for your private jet.

Experts will be popping up on the cable newses to tell us how this "reform" screws the middle class.  And of course, it does.  But it screws 41 million Americans even harder, and almost nobody is talking about them.