Nearly 1/2 of the world's population-more than 3 billion people-live on less than $2.50 a day. The poverty rate is increasing immensely. So many people take what they have for granted and don’t realize that there are billions of people starving or begging for money each day. Would you want to live like that? Would you want others to live like that? People say that it is there fault that their lifestyle is that way but they don’t know, they don’t know how or why they got that way. The world doesn’t know and they have no right to judge either. The number of poor children has increased nearly 13 percent since 2000. People don’t think that poverty affects children but they are wrong. 22,000 children die each day due to poverty. Greater portions
