Capitalism is the key to forming a prosperous African-American middle class by Jack Brewer via The B
As I return from one of my several annual trips to Africa, I can't stop thinking about just how lucky we are as Americans.
In many parts of Africa, the majority of the population lives off of less than $2 a day. More than a billion people globally live in extreme poverty, according to an article by the BBC, and almost 1.3 billion people are under the poverty line. And those people have little hope that they can rise out of such poverty.
It often causes me to ask: How bad can it really be in America, where just about every one of us at least has a chance to better our lives through education and hard work?
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