UN: “Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to the United States of America,” 4 May 2018

Before you have an orgasm over low (official) unemployment numbers or high stock bubbles—I mean, valuations—have a gander at reality.

Some choice facts about Freedom’s Land and Bravery’s Home that have, sadly, nothing to do with Russian meddling:

• 40m live in poverty; 18.5m in extreme poverty; 5.3m “live in Third World conditions of absolute poverty”
• Highest youth poverty rate in the OECD
• Highest infant mortality rate among comparable OECD members
• “Its citizens live shorter and sicker lives compared to those living in all other rich democracies, eradicable tropical diseases are increasingly prevalent[.]”
• Highest incarceration rate in the world
• Highest obesity levels in the developed world
• One of the lowest levels of voter registrations in the OECD
• Highest rate of income inequality among Western countries
• 18th out of 21 OECD countries in terms of labor markets, poverty rates, safety nets, wealth inequality and economic mobility
• 25% of the world’s billionaires
• Top 1% own 38.6% of total wealth; on the increase
• One of the lowest rates of intergenerational social mobility of any of the rich countries

And the punchline is that every single trend noted above is getting worse, and faster than pre-Trump. And that’s just from the introduction to this short report.