When our economy is truly healthy, and everyone rises with the tide of prosperity, then issues such as the lack of affordable housing, homelessness, and hunger are greatly diminished.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.
If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
When people are healthy and not hungry, they are stronger workers building a robust economy.
The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.
If we don't figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we're not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.
When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children.
When more land is locked up by the federal government, real people suffer, and opportunities for future prosperity are reduced.
Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.