Bono Moves the Needle on Poverty

Human beings have been campaigning against inequality and poverty for 3,000 years. But this journey is accelerating. Bono "embraces his inner nerd" and shares inspiring data that shows the end of poverty is in sight ... if we can harness the momentum.

Bono offers a spirited, nerdy take on the state of poverty and its possible trajectory over the coming years.  Families living on $1.25 is back-breaking indeed and heart-breaking, too.  But there is reason to be hopeful and optimistic:

Bono has a way of injecting humor and hope into something grave and entrenched.  So when he says that the zero zone of poverty is, for him, the erogenous zone, we laugh and take note and find ourselves engaged.  It won't be a person like me who will move the needle on eradicating poverty.  It'll be someone like Bono, whom people, by and large, really listen to and are moved by.  I can theorize and advise behind the scenes, and he can keep speaking to audiences the world over.

The power of the people is so much stronger than the people in power.

One is the organization that Bono co-founded to fight extreme poverty.