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12/10/2021

11/26/2021

Hearts and Minds wishing everyone a very happy 2021!

06/07/2021

Looking for some uplifting news to start your week? Check out the article below form vox.com covering the the global economic progress over the last decade!

Extreme poverty - at least the most extreme kind - has fallen by half since 1990, and life expectancy is increasing in poor countries - and there are more indices of improvement.

Learn more at the link below!

These are bleak times — but a lot of things are improving.

06/03/2021

Where many other organizations help a limited number of people in limited ways, Hearts and Minds is here to make a bigger difference!

Small actions make big change, and through direct advocacy, comprehensive platforms, and by addressing the cause at its root, we are fighting global poverty one day at a time! Learn more at heartsandminds.org/

06/01/2021

There is both good news and bad news about poverty this year.

We can rejoice that the biggest lift out of poverty in the history of mankind has happened in our generation. Since 1990, more than a billion people have risen out of extreme poverty, at least the most extreme kind.

The bad news is that, due to the coronavirus restrictions and lockdown measures, we risk a major global setback, even on this.

Learn more about The United Nations, the World Food Program, the International Labor Organization, the International Food Policy Research Institute, Business Sweden, and others are working to fight this setback at the link below!

There is both good news and bad news about poverty this year. We can rejoice that the biggest lift out of poverty in the history of mankind has happened in our generation. Since 1990, more than a billion people have...

04/28/2021

Source: https://www.worldvision.org/sponsorship-news-stories/global-poverty-facts

04/26/2021

For the first time since the 1990s, the global ­middle class shrank last year, according to a recent Pew Research Center estimate.

About 150 million people—a number equal to the populations of the U.K. and Germany combined—tumbled down the socioeconomic ladder in 2020, with South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa seeing the biggest declines.

Read more at the link below from TheStreet!

An estimated 150 million people slipped down the economic ladder in 2020, the first pullback in almost three decades.

04/21/2021

Source: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/overview #:~:text=The%20global%20extreme%20poverty%20rate,less%20than%20%241.90%20a%20day.&text=About%2070%20percent%20of%20the,or%20only%20some%20basic%20education.