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Episode 297: What Happened to Poverty?

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Poverty Is Not Affecting the World

Poverty is disappearing almost every place, but in the few places, it's not disappearing. The U.S. has spent adjusted for inflation around $23 trillion fighting poverty since 1967. "I suspect they could do it though, because I'm almost positive," he says of North Korea.

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