Commentary: What the Percy Amendment, focused on women's global poverty, has to teach 50 years later
Last month, the United Nations issued a warning in its report “Gender Snapshot 2023,” predicting that should current trends continue, more than 340 million women and girls “will live in extreme poverty by 2030 and close to one in four will experience moderate or severe food insecurity.”
The problem is hardly new, and neither are attempts to address it. It was in the 1970s that the U.N., the World Bank, the U.S. government and others turned their attention to the challenge of world poverty and women’s place within it.
In fact, 50 years ago this month, Illinois U.S. Sen. Charles today.
