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Compare the number of lives saved globally by different innovations. Click "Web Infographics" for more like this: https://buff.ly/2Ed3lVi

The danger ahead doesn't lie in a specific, supposedly unsolvable problem - history shows humanity is capable of addressing great challenges. The danger lies in turning our backs on the means by which problems can be solved - reason, science, open discourse...

Today, Africa's literacy rate is higher than the worldwide average 25 years ago. https://buff.ly/2Ed6lRB #education

The amount of labor that once bought 54 minutes of light now buys 52 years of light.

Economist Don Boudreaux says, "I wouldn’t be remotely tempted to quit the 2016 me so that I could be a one-billion-dollar-richer me in 1916. This fact means that, by 1916 standards, I am today more than a billionaire."

Despite his claim that the capitalist system would impoverish the masses, "When (Karl) Marx died in 1883, the average Englishman was three times richer than he was when Marx was born, in 1818." - @johanknorberg https://buff.ly/2EB20Zt

In 1981, the year Ronald Reagan became America's 40th President, 44.3 percent of the world lived in extreme poverty (i.e., less than $1.90 per person per day). In 2015, it was 9.6 percent. That's a decline of 78 percent.

After China liberalized its economy, hundreds of millions escaped poverty. Once India moved toward economic freedom in the 1990s, its population saw a remarkable decline in poverty as well. People lift themselves from poverty wherever they're free to do so

Educate the Haters

Oxfam pollutes our discourse with phony statistics and false narratives in a politicized way. These findings are being used to call for a policy shift - a turn away from market-based capitalism, which has lifted billions around the world out of poverty.