WILL WE ALWAYS HAVE THE POOR AMONG US?
Christ healing the paralytic, by Anthony van Dyck (c. 1619)
Assurances to the contrary from Jesus (see Matthew 26:11), we may be close to ending poverty as we know it.
That’s the good news shared recently by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof: simply put, the number of poor among us is declining rapidly. According to the latest figures from the World Bank, in 2011 only 14 percent of the world’s population lived in “extreme” poverty, down from 35 percent in 1993. The improvement in conditions around the world has been steady enough that in late 2015 when UN member nations set themselves 17 new “Sustainable Development Goals,” first on the list was to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030. Similar good news has emerged from the Census Bureau about poverty levels in the just in the US./.../
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