The Reality of Global Poverty

PERSONAL FROM DAVID C. PACK, PUBLISHER/EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

While pockets of severe deprivation do exist in the West’s lands of plenty, the overall picture of the poor is starkly different in the rest of the world.
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