Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
One of the United Nations goals is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. One of there targets is to reduce extreme poverty rates by half. 700 million fewer people lived in conditions of extreme poverty in 2010 then in 1990. Although, at the global level 1.2 billion people are still living in extreme poverty.
Another goal is to achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people. Globally, 384 million workers lived below the $1.25 a day poverty line in 2011. There is a 24.8 percentage difference between the percentage of men and woman being unemployed.
The last goal is to the proportion of people who suffer from hunger in half. They are going to try and reach this target by 2015. Globally, about 870 million people are estimated to be hungry. More than 100 million children under age five are still undernourished and underweight.
I think when you look at the statistics, it is sad how many people are going hungry, when compared to how much food is being wasted here in United States. I think that people should think more about this when they through away their food.
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