Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
The goal of “eradicating extreme poverty and hunger” has three main points:
- Halving the proportion of people with an income of <$1.25 per day by 2015
- Achieving full productive work for all, women and young people included
- Halving the proportion of people living in hunger by 2015
The first part was already achieved in 2010, but there are still 1.2 billion people globally living on less than $1.25 a day.
The second part has made some progress, but is still far from being achieved. In 2011, 384 million workers were living below the poverty line, which was 294 million lower than 2001. The gap in employment-to-population ration between men and women was still at a 24.8% difference in 2012.
The third part is still reachable by 2015. Around the world, 870 million people are thought to be undernourished, more than 100 million of which are children.
These numbers are insane, considering that the United States just throws out so much food and spends so much money on things that are really trivial. People here should just think about these kinds of numbers before just recklessly spending and throwing stuff out.
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