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Poverty
OVERVIEW
If people are too busy surviving, it is difficult to find happiness, purpose, and solutions to world problems.
DANGERS
- Increasing wealth inequality can compound several issues
- One study shows that poverty is the equivalent to a drop of 13 points in IQ, or the loss of one night’s sleep
- Being poor results in poor decision-making, not the other way around
CURRENT STATUS
- Extreme poverty rates have been cut by 50% since 1990
- The world is on track to achieve the UN’s goal of eliminating “extreme poverty” by 2030.
- The way most people think about poverty is wrong
- Wealth inequality in America is off the charts
- Former president Obama believes that wealth inequality is the defining issue of our time
