Extreme global poverty must end

As we address the basic economic needs of our fellow citizens, we should also increase efforts to meet basic human needs around the globe. Core principles of dignity, moral conscience, responsibility, interdependence, and justice should compel the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world to help the billions of people suffering from extreme poverty. Our support for effective aid, transparency and good governance, basic education, health interventions, just trade policies, and debt cancellation would prevent most of the 30,000 child deaths worldwide each day due to poverty and disease.

U.S. international development assistance should be increased by an additional one percent of the federal budget. This would honor our commitment to the Millennium Development Goals, which are designed to cut global poverty in half by the year 2015.

LEARN MORE:

• Millennium Development Goals
• U.N. Member Commitment to MDGs
• Jubilee USA Network
• ONE Campaign
• Micah Challenge