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• "Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
  - James A. Baldwin

1. 2.8 billion people live in poverty all over the world.
2. A child is born into poverty every 43 seconds in the United States.
3. 34.6 million people in the US lived in poverty in 2002.
4. 30,000 children die from poverty related causes everyday, all over the world.
5. 1 billion children live in poverty.
6. A child dies every 3 seconds because of poverty.
7. 800,000 people suffer from chronic hunger.
8. 1.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water.
9. More than 840 million adults are illiterate. - 538 million of them are women.
10. In developing countries, 160 million pre-school children are underweight.
11. 38% of the world's grain is fed to livestock. Reducing American consumption of meat by 5% could save enough grain to feed 25 million people.
12. 33 million Americans do not have enough food.
13. 6 million Americans do not qualify for food stamps.
14. 23% of rural American children live in poverty.
15. 3 billion people in the world live on less than 2 dollars a day.
16. More than 1.2 billion people (20% of the world's population) live on less than 1 dollar a day.
17. It cost $1,500,000 to purchase 30 seconds of air time during the 1998 Super Bowl. That would feed 72,000 hungry children for a year.
18. 100 million people have no housing.
19. $4.4 billion is the cost of two B-2 bombers.
20. 800 million people in the world suffer from malnutrition.
21. 10% of hunger related deaths result from famines and wars.
22. 33% of people in Sub-Saharan Africa are undernourished.
23. 25% of children under the age of 5 in Ghanda are underweight for their age.
24. 43% of Malawi's population do not have access to safe water.
25. 55% of children in Zambia are enrolled in school.
26. 600 million live on 65 cents a day in Sub-Saharan Africa.
27. 5 people die from AIDS every minute.
28. 270 million have to access to health services.
29. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5.
30. In the 2000 Presidential Elections, George W. Bush spent $185,921,855 on his campaign. That's enough to feed more than 200,000 people.