A boy fills up a water container in Saint-Louis, Senegal on January 8, 2025. The coastal capital city is at risk of flooding due to climate change. | Andres Gutierrez/Anadolu via Getty Images Thanksgiving is traditionally a good time to start counting your blessings. And for years, hundreds of millions of people have had this to be thankful for: they live in a time that has made historic progress against the scourge of extreme poverty. Between 1990 and today, the number of people living in extreme poverty — meaning on the equivalent of $3 or less per day in US purchasing power — fell...

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