This is Linda Yu with the Inquiry.

In 1949, over a million people crowded around the U.S. capital in Washington, D.C.

to watch President Harry S. Truman's second inauguration.

President, you raise the right hand?

They heard their president make a very bold statement.

More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery.

Their poverty is a handicap and a threat, both to them and to more prosperous areas.

For the first time in history, humanity possesses

the knowledge and skill to relieve the suffering of these people. It's a claim we've heard many times since that ending poverty is within our grasp, but it's a dream which has, despite decades of effort,

eluded us. Now the United Nations has set a new target to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030.

Will it be different this time?

We've already come a long way. For the first time in history, fewer than one in

ten people are poor around the world. A billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty since 1990.

But achieving the UN's new goal means reaching another 836 million people in the next 14 years.

And that will be tough.

So are we really about to end world poverty?

That's our question this week.

Part 1, the right track.

I personally actually have experienced probably the poorest

period of China.

Most families, they would struggle to have enough rice to cook.

Meij Sujeyaao, our first expert witness who recalls what it was like growing

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