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A reading list for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
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If you’re out of the loop, this is a new series for The Lazy Reader: Themed reading lists.
On Thursdays, we’ll send out five or so reading recommendations that fall under a specific category. Maybe it’s about the pharma industry and how our medicines get made, or maybe it’s about death and what it tells us about living.
The goal is to make this a weekly thing, but that might not be possible straight away. (Running a newsletter on top of a freelance business is stretching me to my absolute limit). We’ll start sending every other week and then hopefully move to a weekly rhythm in a few months’ time.
Of course, this won’t affect our weekly Longread Lists on Mondays.
Happy reading!
The Bottom Billion
Today, October 17, is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
The Day has it roots in 1987 France, when activists in Paris kicked off a movement declaring poverty as a violation of human rights. Things became official in 1992, when the UN finally recognized the symbolic value of October 17 to raise awareness of the pressing and crushing nature of poverty, and to rally various groups across the world (governments, especially) to take concrete action.
But of course, I didn't just know all of that. I took it all from Google, which led me to the UN's webpage for this year’s event.
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