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The story we tell about poverty isn't true | Mia Birdsong

Published: Sept. 15, 2015, 3:24 p.m.

As a global community, we all want to end poverty. Mia Birdsong suggests a great place to start: Let's honor the skills, drive and initiative that poor people bring to the struggle every day. She asks us to look again at people in poverty: They may be broke \u2014 but they're not broken.