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Obama's bill would commit the United States to UN poverty goals.(Inside Track)(Senator Barack Obama)
Thanks to the alternative news media, many conservatives are familiar by now with some aspects of Senator Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) Global Poverty Act of 2007 (S. 2433). Although this bill should definitely be opposed, some misunderstandings have arisen regarding exactly what the bill calls for.
In September 2000 the UN General Assembly adopted the "United Nations Millennium Declaration," which set a goal "to halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose income is less than one dollar a day."
On March 1, 2007, Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) introduced the Global Poverty Act of 2007, H.R. 1302, with the purpose: "To require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day."
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