One thing I want to do during my internship is share what I am learning with all of you. It is my hope that this will be filled in your mind somewhere in between remembering to pay your phone bill and the random statistics you recall when watching reruns of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.” (Speaking of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, if you haven’t seen the movie “Slumdog Millionaire,” see it. Seriously.)

These “Facts” I will be posting will primarily have to do with poverty, AIDS, and sex trafficking. All of these will be areas that I will be spending a lot of time studying. That said here is your first fact:

Nearly half the people in the world live on less than $2 dollars a day.

To put that in perspective, there are approximately 6,759,314,200 people in the world today. In comparison the United States has a population of about 300,000,000. So that means eleven times the amount of people living in the U.S. are living daily on less money than we spend on just ONE gallon of gas.

“The Skeptic’s Guide to Global Poverty,” Dale Hanson Bourke. Authentic Publishing. 2006.

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