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William Chen 

Mr. King  

English 1 Honors 

2/28/19 

No Poverty 

The U.N goal “No Poverty” is the most important because it helps achieve most of the other goals by 

providing jobs through businesses. (Goal) The jobs in turn provide income and assuming that the minimum 

wage is high, the income becomes taxes(assuming that it’s a capitalist society), building a foundation upon 

which the government can use to fund projects, infrastructure, etc. Such as schools, more agricultural lands, 

business, electricity, water, etc. The goal also helps achieve the climate goals, as when people’s income rises, 

they care more about the environment because they have the time and money to focus on something that is not 

involved with their own survival, thus pursuing more greener ways to live their lives. (Wu) In the way of 

providing jobs, which in turn creates more resources meaning more markets and competition, it deals with 

discrimination in the free market, since if one business doesn’t serve a group of people than the business next 

door will just serve that group, therefore making more money, same things applies with jobs.(Rand) For 

example if Food Lion doesn’t allow Hutu’s to shop there, and Harris Teeter does, then Harris Teeter will make 

more money than Food Lion and in extreme cases Food Lion could go out of business. The jobs also have to 

follow the International Labour Organisation and the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights, 

which sums up to business cannot discriminate, business have to commit to a certain minimum wage, and no 

child labor. All leading to the point of why this is important, and that is because 783 million people are living 

of 1.90 us dollars a day, meaning they have lack of food, water, quality education, and other basic 
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services.(Goal) But if their income rises then they will have more opportunity to ensure a better future for their 

kids.  

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“Nations​, United Nations,​www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/poverty/​. Date accessed Feb 27 2019 

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www.unglobalcompact.org/what-is-gc/our-work/social/poverty​. Date accessed Feb 27 2019 

Wu, Ming-yi, and G.Chiang. “The Richer the Greener : Evidence from G 7 Countries.” ​Undefined​, 2017,  

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3d26fce5c908aace5724d673b66e​. 

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Date accessed Feb 28 2019