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The Hidden Reason for Poverty the World Needs to Address Now
In 2015, IJM CEO Gary Haugen took to the TED stage with a bold challenge:
The poor are facing a constant threat of violence, but the world has done almost nothing to protect them.
It’s time to rethink poverty, he says, and to make the violence stop.