About a fifth of mankind still live in abject poverty, dispute the numerous national and global efforts during the past years on the first target of the Millennium Development Goals which aimed to decrease extreme poverty by one-half by the year 2015. Abdou Touray, Programme Specialist – Poverty and MDGs at the United Nations Development Programme country office in The Gambia said as of 2011 the poorest 40 percent of the world’s population account for 5 percent of global income and the…

The world is hungry - Philippines following Typhoon Hagupit - Did America's Capitalism 'help' this country they 'conquered' from Spain in war? Compare the extreme poverty of all third-world countries the US dominates (where you usually find extreme poverty, overpopulation, & crime) - w/ Cuba, which escaped the US (now 100% literate w/ world class education & healthcare): http://www.worldnomads.com/travel-safety/Philippines/Crime-in-the-Philippines

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When I was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia recently as part of the U.S. government’s delegation to the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, I was struck by how much the international development landscape is changing. Where governments were once the primary source of development assistance, today the private sector, civil society, academia and donors are all working together to discover, fund and scale innovative solutions to longtime development challenges.

Cleveland's child poverty rate is among the worst in the nation. And conditions aren't much better for adults.

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I stare at this image a lot. I ask myself how . . . and why . . . and feel so helpless in making a difference. I know a lot of people care. I know a lot more people are living at the door's edge a paycheck away from homelessness on the streets. And that's a scary place to be. It's a scene each and everyone of us could end up in given a wrong set of circumstances or decisions.