The Borgen Project has informative statistics on addressing global poverty.

$30 billion ends world hunger
$550 billion is the US Defense budget

This organization has the ability, resources, and policy-makers to suppress the threat of global poverty by enacting legislation here in the US, which is tied to the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals. Please support organizations such as The Borgen Project so that we may rid the world of poverty.

$30 billion? $30 billion a year?

What is it used for? What underlying problem does it correct, if any?

It's frustrating to hear people who think they are the FIRST ones to conclude that we can 'end world hunger' if everyone else just cared (i.e. spent) enough.

This is fucking assinine. I'm sorry, but if poor people didn't die of hunger, they'd have more babies that would then have to be fed. Eventually, it would be MUCH more than 30 billion.

I don't get why some people don't think the laws of nature apply to humans.