The success of the market economy for all...

[Paul Mobbs]

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...or not, as the case may be.

Tonight Panorama exposes the shame of the "richest" nation on Earth --
'Panorama: Poor America', BBC One, Monday, 13th February at 20:30 GMT; then 
available in the UK on the BBC iPlayer, 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01c2y2b/Panorama_Poor_America/

See also the Beeb website -- extract below.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_9694000/9694094.stm

America's homeless resort to tent cities 

BBC News, Monday 13th February 2012


Panorama's Hilary Andersson comes face to face with the reality of poverty 
in America and finds that, for some, the last resort has become life in a 
tented encampment.

Just off the side of a motorway on the fringes of the picturesque town of 
Ann Arbor, Michigan, a mismatched collection of 30 tents tucked in the 
woods has become home - home to those who are either unemployed, or whose 
wages are so low that they can no longer afford to pay rent.

Conditions are unhygienic. There are no toilets and electricity is only 
available in the one communal tent where the campers huddle around a wood 
stove for warmth in the heart of winter.

Ice weighs down the roofs of tents, and rain regularly drips onto the 
sleeping campers' faces as they sleep.

Tent cities have sprung up in and around at least 55 American cities - they 
represent the bleak reality of America's poverty crisis. 

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nor are we for this party nor against the other but we are
for justice and mercy and truth and peace and true freedom,
that these may be exalted in our nation, and that goodness,
righteousness, meekness, temperance, peace and unity with
God, and with one another, that these things may abound."
(Edward Burrough, 1659 - from 'Quaker Faith and Practice')

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