Three facts from “Our World in Data” that everyone should know
First off, I stand up and applaud the Gates Foundation, and everybody, who work to improve the lives of everybody on the planet.<p>WRT: Extreme Poverty, a few years back, we had a political party who tackled the problem of poverty by redefining the measuring stick of what constitutes poverty. <i>POOF</i> much celebration and self-handshaking when they announced that during their term, their efforts dropped the number of people living in poverty by a very significant amount.<p>This has left a bad taste in my mouth ever since to never trust claims from politicians.<p>So I wonder, in the case of this article, how many of those people no longer living at the adjusted poverty line and now only marginally above it and no longer included.  They're still their, but buy grace of a single digit, are now considered much better off.