The US death tolls and confirmed cases, which are far ahead of all other countries, show how Washington operates like a third-world country
Stiglitz, who was also the World Bank’s chief economist in the past, likened the US to an impoverished, underdeveloped country as millions of Americans are rushing to food banks to survive in the wake of lockdown measures and vanishing jobs.
The inequality, which has increasingly become apparent through globalism, is the trademark of many fragile states and developing countries. But the pandemic has also helped expose the stark inequalities in the developed world, particularly, in the US asPeople queue to pick up fresh food at a Los Angeles Regional Food Bank giveaway of 2,000 boxes of groceries, as the spread of the coronavirus disease continues, in Los Angeles, California, US, April 9, 2020.
But Trump’s inadequate response has shown not only the depth of inequality but also how poor the state of the country’s public health system is even after reforms brought by former president Barack Obama with the Affordable Care Act.
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