Some were sleeping under a piece of cardboard, and there would be small families living under a bridge. The poverty was devastating.

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

The job situation seems to be improving, but many people here are still living below the poverty level. The police did a wonderful job, but churches need to do more.

People who are poor who are living on the edge of poverty or who are living under poverty are tucked away some place else. I don't see them; they don't see me; we don't interact; we have no relation one to the other; no physical relation.

This food crisis is the result of a massive drought hitting families living in chronic poverty.

Middle-income living standards, and poverty for that matter, are best addressed through employment growth. By maintaining low inflation and low expectations of inflation, you can create new employment.