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RE: 3 Ways How Your Poverty Affects You In Bad Way (Featuring new author @steemist)
Overview article here from the Guardian "The dramatic fall in global poverty over the past two decades is the best news in the world today. For the first time ever, the percentage of people living in extreme poverty – now defined as living on less than US$1.90 a day – is projected to fall below 10% this year, to 9.6% of the world’s population.@ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/03/the-best-news-in-the-world-we-have-made-real-progress-towards-ending-extreme-poverty
they need to define extreme poverty based on the general wealth of the country... there would be few if any people in Canada and the US living on less than $1.90 / day but that doesn't mean we don't have people living in extreme poverty unable to cover the basics of food/shelter/clothing. The homeless are not there for nothing.
completely agree @shadowspub