America’s Grenfell: Slow death of the poor

America's Grenfell: Slow death of the poor

Monument to cost-cutting The high rises in Britain to burn in the past 20 years — Garnock Court in Scotland, and Lakenal House and Grenfell Tower in England — happen to be places where poor people lived. Whether in the U.K. or the U.S., chances to make money abound from making poor people’s lives more dangerous.

We mostly grow used to the poor dying around us. Every so often though, the deaths of poor people happen in horrific fashion, such as last month at Grenfell Tower, where an estimated 80 residents of that housing project died. The images of Grenfell […]

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