Poverty is a tricky goal to start with because it can’t really be solved unless all the other goals are solved. Keep that in mind when working on this.

This page is for information on all targets and indicators in goal 1.

United States

Lay-Person Tasks

• If you use banks, move your money to credit unions. Wealthy financial institutions are harmful towards many SDG’s, especially this one.

Resources

• Poverty Finance Resource List:  https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/index

• Emergency Food Resources by State https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/foodbanks

• Benefit Programs by Country https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/benefit_programs

• Food Banks https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/foodbanks

• Low-Cost Healthcare https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/healthcare

• Mental Health https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/mental_health

• Legal Services https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/legalaid

• Building Your Tech Tree Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/techtree

• Everyday & Household

• Clothes https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/clothes

• Children https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/children

• Cooking, Nutrition, & Groceries https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/cooking_and_nutrition

• Dating https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/dating

• Entertainment https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/entertainment

• Fitness & Wellness https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/fitness_and_wellness

• Helpful Apps https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/apps

• Hobbies https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/hobbies

• Housing https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/housing

• Internet and Phones https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/phones_and_internet

• Pets https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/pets

• Travel https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/travel

• Poverty Finance

• You can take free online courses in financial literacy at [McGill Personal Finance https://mcgillpersonalfinance.com/

• Budget Websites and Templates https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/budget_templates

• Credit Building https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/credit)

• Debt https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/debt)

• Financial Literacy https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/financial_literacy)

• Loans https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/loans)

• Taxes https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/taxes)

• Life Planning

• Education https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/education

• Family Planning https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/familyplanning

• Marriage https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/marriage

• Career https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/wiki/work

• Resource to get a loan; it’s a publicly funded loan similar to gofundme so you will need to share on social media.  https://www.kiva.org/borrow 

Potential Organizations

• This org helps people fight different types of debt. https://debtcollective.org/ 

• If you are wealthy, Resource Generation is an organization that helps wealthy people redistribute their wealth. https://linktr.ee/resourcegeneration 

Informational Resources

• Global data tracker on poverty: https://sdg-tracker.org/no-poverty 

• List of articles on SDG Goal 1: https://www.solutionsjournalism.org/collections/r1qi33jvu7 

• List of articles on economic mobility: https://www.solutionsjournalism.org/topics/economic-mobility 

• Classism and Anti-Capitalism Study Guide, from the Better Future Program https://bfpnola.notion.site/bfpnola/Classism-and-Anti-Capitalism-Study-Guide-for-Beginners-ee1f89c801594cbf8ef22a9238825523 The links below are from this site.

• Media outlet that discusses economic inequality: https://inequality.org/ 

• Podcast Capitalism vs. Communism Philosophize This https://open.spotify.com/episode/1yVnCWaSON1fgrCMorq8mc?si=127e7132c3954c50

• Podcast The Conquest of Bread (Audiobook) Peter Kropotkin https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1rwOp8ICHu6QHEzPpNbaNo?si=82ea8c8795ac4308

• Post Common Left-Wing Terms & Their Differences bfpnola https://www.instagram.com/p/CMAYjAfjPha/

• Post Let’s Talk About: Class Traitors theangryblackboy https://www.instagram.com/p/CT-zA4UMut3/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

• Post Capitalism is a global pyramid scheme that makes oppression profitable Dr. Ayesha Khan https://www.instagram.com/p/CIy3bIpsNIT/

• Post Is Capitalism a Pyramid Scheme? subversive.thread https://www.instagram.com/p/CKrIXxGgoIV/

• Post You’re not on your own & this isn’t innately a “dog-eat-dog world” Dr. Ayesha Khan https://www.instagram.com/p/CYcLr8_jOd5/

• Post Class Reductionism theangryblackboy https://www.instagram.com/p/CLr-5cos1-5/

• Post You Cannot Be Anti-Racist Without Being Anti-Capitalist bsalzman https://www.instagram.com/p/CBMHpOLDv5M/

• Film/Video We Need a Library Economy andrewism https://youtu.be/NOYa3YzVtyk

• Film/Video Paul Robeson: Here I Stand St. Clair Bourne, PBS https://youtu.be/BUki-v-NvoE

• Film/Video What is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter? Simpson Center, Robin D. G. Kelley https://youtu.be/REo_gHIpvJc

• Film/Video Poverty, Politics and Profit (full documentary) | Frontline Frontline PBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSgrN-XYkVI

• Article What is Classism Class Action https://classism.org/about-class/what-is-classism/

• Article Class Discrimination Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_discrimination

• Article Capitalism, Socialism, and Leftist Political Economy (Pt. 1): Basics of Capitalism J. Mzizi https://redvoice.news/capitalism-socialism-and-leftist-political-economy-pt-1-basics-of-capitalism/

• Article How bosses are (literally) like dictators Elizabeth Anderson https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/17/15973478/bosses-dictators-workplace-rights-free-markets-unions

• Article The Ideas of Karl Marx Alan Woods https://www.marxist.com/karl-marx-130-years.htm

• Article What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism? Robin D. G. Kelley https://bostonreview.net/articles/robin-d-g-kelley-introduction-race-capitalism-justice/

• Article Malcolm X: “You show me a capitalist, I’ll show you a bloodsucker” Ray Smith https://www.socialist.net/malcolm-x-you-show-me-a-capitalist-i-ll-show-you-a-bloodsucker.htm

Books

• Poverty, By America, by Matthew Desmond.
• Understanding Capitalism Vivek Chibber https://app.box.com/s/zqpvlvab94qivb54pen519yqulqemsiu
• Communist Manifesto Karl Marx, Frederick Engels https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf
• Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones Carole Boyce Davies https://drive.google.com/file/d/15CcizdttXs7oacYdzTvipILGnIG8upeV/view?usp=sharing
• Capitalism and the State Vivek Chibber https://app.box.com/s/0vahfi4rfw4ey0oib7zuuc5tj1y4s4u7