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RE: 3 Ways How Your Poverty Affects You In Bad Way (Featuring new author @steemist)
@dantheman poverty rates have fallen (adjusted for inflation), but this is far from over..hopefully, we can decrease it further quickly 
However, the 20th century had WW1, WW2, and the Great Depression and so much other stuff. The NUMBER of people in poverty may have actually gone up in the 21st century though, coz of population growth and decreased mortality rates due to better health care.
I agree with your point that the number of impoverished has increased, but I have to disagree with your logic of why. A decrease in mortality rates as a function of increase in population is not a cause of poverty. The largest single cause of poverty in the world is the lack of financial prosperity due to the increase in theft (taxation, tariffs etc.) by governments and or corporations. This is just, like, my opinion ...man ...
This chart does not take into account the period in the seventies where poverty showed the steepest decline as a result of the inflation strongest increase