Lily Bjorlin, Chapter 9, Question 5

What struck me the most in this chapter was when Wheelan was talking about the other ways to measure economic success. When he mentioned that our poverty rate is roughly the same as it was in the '70s, I couldn't believe it. You would think with all of our technological advancements and human rights campaigns in the past 45 years we would at least have made a dent in the poverty rate. It made me think of when we were taking in class the other day about how we help the poor. I think that if we had more programs (efficient and inexpensive programs that is) it would greatly help our nations poor.