Us against them? Why globalization doesn't have to pit American workers against the world's poor.

Globalization doesn't have to be a zero-sum game

Bill Clintons travels to Africa with the Clinton Foundation.
(Image credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images for the Clinton Foundation)

So here are two facts about the world that present us with something of a paradox.

One, global poverty is in massive retreat. Since 1993, the portion of the world living in extreme poverty dropped from 35 percent to 14 percent. Scourges like violence, war, childhood mortality, disease, and illiteracy are all falling like rocks.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.