The United States of America committed to providing adequate aid to help end extreme poverty in the world.
But, our political leaders backslide despite our commitments. We provide only 0.16% of our nation's income to help nations start helping themselves.
We can cure extreme poverty, but we must do more, and soon.
By making good on our word, by honoring existing commitments and targeting our resources to economic development, health, education, and hunger relief, we can live up to the calling of our generation: to cure extreme poverty by 2025.
From the Monterrey Consensus, agreed to by the United States on March 22, 2002:
"...We urge developed countries that have not done so to make concrete efforts towards the target of 0.7 per cent of gross national product (GNP) as ODA [Official Development Assistance] to developing countries..."
Much of the information here is drawn from the work of Dr. Jeffrey Sachs. If you want great in-depth information on our generation's chance to change the world, read his book The End of Poverty.