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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Robert F Kennedy
Poverty
 "Descriptions of material need, typically including the necessities of daily living (food, clothing, shelter, and health care). Poverty in this sense may be understood as the deprivation of essential goods and services" Source: Wikipedia
Homelessness

Hunger

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Causes of Poverty - Global Issues
Contains information of the causes of poverty, its impact, economic democracy, and facts and statistics
Catholic Enclopedia: Poverty
Discusses poverty as a concept and canonical discipline.
Institute for Research on Poverty
Information about the institute, explanations of poverty measures, research, and links.
Make Poverty History
Organization seeking to eradicate poverty in the world
The ONE Campaign | FrontPage
 An effort to rally Americans to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty.
National Poverty Center - The University of Michigan
Informational Site
NLCHP- National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
Fact sheets, legal briefing materials, links, legislative tracking, agency information and other resources from this legal resource center
Open Directory - Society: Issues: Poverty
ActionAid International - Large global anti-poverty agency, working with world's
Poverty
 Information about poverty, its assessment, its impacts, and initiatives to reduce poverty internationally.
Poverty.com
A site dedicated to the elimination of poverty through out the globe. Sister site FreeRice.
Poverty-Wikipidea
Informational Site
Poverty Facts and Stats - Global Issues
This part of the globalissues.org web site presents some of the hard hitting facts and statistics on poverty.
Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement
HHS Poverty Guidelines for use in certain programs and for other purposes.
Poverty - Main
Official statistics on poverty in the United States.
Poverty - test
Portal site with reports, links, bulletin board and other resources focusing on poverty reduction and development.
Poverty USA -- Catholic Campaign for Human Development
Informational Site
Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded in 1971 as a small civil rights law firm.
 

Image shows percentage of the world's population living in extreme poverty has halved since 1981. The graph shows estimates and projections from the World Bank 1981–2009.


 

The Gini coefficient, a measure of income inequality.
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Percentage of population living on less than $1.25 per day. UN estimates 2000-2006.

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Source of chart and maps: Wikipidea

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