Catholic News Service covered a panel co-sponsored by CUA on ending poverty. See below.
From: Catholic News Service (via National Catholic Reporter) Date: April 29, 2015 Author: Mark Pattison
Washington - With extreme poverty having been cut in half over the last generation -- and the Millennium Development Goals target of poverty halving having been achieved five years ahead of the 2015 deadline -- veterans of the global war on poverty believe it is possible that extreme poverty can be wiped out in the next 15 years.
It will be a tall order because an estimated 1 billion people still live in extreme poverty, defined as living on less than $1.25 a day.
But "progress is possible everywhere," declared Alex Thier, a U.S. Agency for International Development official who has spent half of his life in the world's poverty zones, during a forum Tuesday at The Catholic University of America.
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