Harsh anti-Trump U.N. human rights report on US 'extreme poverty' cherry-picks data, assumptions, examination shows

"A United Nations report on extreme poverty in the U.S., which has sparked strong denunciations from the Trump administration as being 'inaccurate, inflammatory, and irresponsible,' is marred by carefully cherry-picked and suppressed data, unsourced negative assumptions about administration policies, and unsupported generalizations about allegedly regressive U.S. social and political policies, according to an examination of its source documents by Fox News...

Despite the evidence he has not mentioned, when it comes to U.S. measures to alleviate extreme poverty, Alston's report is, overall, sweepingly dismissive of everything U.S. administrations, Democrat and Republican, have done for the past half-century...But that is only by way of taking sharper aim at the Trump administration..."