New York City, North American Federation
Despite the best efforts of many within the NAF, the growing Poor and Rich divide could be seen nowhere better then in New York. Towering Penthouses reached into the skies, while on the outskirts of New York there were only shacks, thrown together from what ever materials they could find laying around.
The slums of New York smelled of sewage, disease, and death. The shacks that had been thrown together lacked any plumbing or electricity. The only plumbing was in the form of old blue porta-potties, which overflowed with the waste of others. The only electricity was streetlights that only ran at night, and sometimes not even then. There was no sounds of a typical busy community, only crying and coughing. Kids did not run about and play, they scavenged for what little food was available. Life in the slums usually meant death at a early age.
It was here that the New Age Reactionary movement was prevalent within the NAF. The newly formed Old Age Party was pushing for laws requiring factories to switch back to more traditional methods of production, including the old assembly lines, rather then 3-D Printers and robots. Members of the Old Age Party would go door to door, if the people there could even read, and hand them fliers. They promised that what they were doing would lift them from poverty, bring food to the table, make them have luxeries again. They said they would have proper housing once again, instead of living in shacks made of rusting metal and rotting wood.
However while the reactionaries tried to claim that nobody was working to help the slums but them, as to gather more support for there cause, it wasn't true. Scattered amongst the ruined shacks and smell of sickness and death was the Red Cross. Mobile buildings had been setup by the Government and other organzations in a attempt to bring aid to those living in the slums. Cots were setup about, nursing go around and bring aid to those who had fallen ill. These shelters also provided food, even if it was only watery soup with bread crusts, or a small hunk of meat. Those living in the slums, or as those who had avoided the hell holes called them, slummies, were grateful to have something to put in there belly all the same.
New York City was not the only city with these outer slums anyways, they were scattered across the US and next to major cities. Austin, San Fransico, Chicago, and even Washington D.C all had these. The world also was in a similiar situation, having slums or something akin to them.
These slums represented one of the many problems of the world as of late, along with many other things. The growing rarity of resources, political and ideological questions, amongst other things.