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Poverty

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Nearly half the people in the world live on less than $2 per day, and 1 billion people live on $1 a day -- "at the margins of survival," according to the United Nations.  And 80 percent of the world’s population lives in countries where income differentials are widening. But countless people and groups are working everyday to help transform lives by improving livelihoods around the world.
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