I chose poverty as my current event because I feel that poverty is a major issue in many countries. The majority of people in the world are in poverty. For example almost half of the people in the world have to live on less than two dollars and fifty cents a day. That is over three billion people. One billion children are living in poverty right now, that is one in two children in the world. One child dies every 4 seconds. That is like a 2010 Haiti earthquake happening every 10 days. Even though it only cost less than one percent of what the world spends on weapons every year to put all of the worlds children in school by 2,000, it did not happen. Poverty also leads to health issues such as easily preventable illness and disease. Poor people can't afford the proper medication and could die from something as simple as a treatable cough or infection. Another health issue is hunger, which plays a huge role in poverty. If starvation could be healed worldwide, there would be a lot less casualties and a lot of countries would be completely changed. One reason that there are so many poor people in the world is that most global decision-making is made, or at least greatly influenced, by the rich, meaning that poor people are left out and the wealthier you are, the more these decisions will benefit you. There are many other reasons for poverty like lack of individual responsibility, or bad government policy. Inequality is probably the biggest though. Some even believe that high inequality will result in the increase of crime rates. In some places crime rates have already gone up due to inequality. In conclusion poverty is terrible and we have had so many chances to help turn it around but we have not taken advantage of many of them.http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty