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Define poverty, a definition applicable to the United States and around the world. How many people are classified as below the poverty line? What are the causes of poverty? For example: unemployment, education, generational poverty, debt, family and social issues, low salaries (termination), discrimination, government (security, genocide, tribal war), disease, economy, gender, cost of necessities, location (isolation) What actions/programs are currently combating poverty? What is the future of global poverty issues?

CIA Factbook GDP and poverty information for every country, also unemployment

[|Center for American Progress] A liberal think tank that issues a recent report and recommendations on poverty.

[|Heritage Foundation] A conservative think tank that studies poverty and other public policy issues.

[|Institute for Research on Poverty] An Area Poverty Research Center sponsored by the US Department of Health and Human Services