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To use a statistic to describe poverty is to turn a human being into a number, the antithesis of compassion. Yet The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund, The United Nations-- all use statistics when talking and writing about poverty. Nazis turned human beings into numbers by using indelible ink when they wrote them on the arms of those they soon were to **** One human being in poverty on Earth is one too many. My nouns are different: starvation, hopelessness, illnesses, slums, violence, death. There are over 3,000 billionaires in the world right now. How much has each given to end world poverty? How many of them have held in his or her arms the body of a child dying of poverty? Not enough, not nearly enough. TOD HOWARD HAWKS
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Mar 25, 2023
Mar 25, 2023 at 5:19 PM UTC
POVERTY AS A POEM
To use a statistic to describe poverty is to turn a human being into a number, the antithesis of compassion. Yet The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund, The United Nations-- all use statistics when talking and writing about poverty. Nazis turned human beings into numbers by using indelible ink when they wrote them on the arms of those they soon were to **** One human being in poverty on Earth is one too many. My nouns are different: starvation, hopelessness, illnesses, slums, violence, death. There are over 3,000 billionaires in the world right now. How much has each given to end world poverty? How many of them have held in his or her arms the body of a child dying of poverty? Not enough, not nearly enough. TOD HOWARD HAWKS
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81/M/Boulder, CO
Mar 25, 2023
Mar 25, 2023 at 5:19 PM UTC
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