Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Poverty Graphs

We started to watch Living on One Today. The students had a bunch of questions.

I also started to find some graphs that illuminate some of the challenges of poverty.


Here is a graph of poverty versus life expectancy.

Here is a graph of world Population living in extreme poverty.

Here is a graph of poverty rates versus murder rates.

Here is a graph relating minimum wage and the poverty line.



Here are some sites to help think about action we can take.

Oxfam

Our World in Data

Living On One