From the article: Extreme poverty is the most obvious and visible indication that our society is unequal, and that the amazing benefits that technology and development have bestowed on some of us are not trickling down and helping people in the poorer parts of the world. So when the UN launched it's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000, with the mission to achieve benchmarks in improving the conditions of people around the world, poverty was the first item on the list.
Millennium Development Goal 1, which uses a 1990-level baseline, covers the most basic of basic needs: Do people have enough food and money to survive? The goals specifically aimed to half the number of people living on $1.25 a day, achieve full employment for everyone, and half the number of people who suffer from hunger.
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