1.0 link 186581 <![CDATA[Why Countries Like Haiti Matter to the Well-Being of Everyday Americans]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/why-countries-like-haiti_b_186581.html Haiti is the poorest country in our hemisphere.

• It is a country of 8.2 million people.
• 6.2 million of them live in poverty.
• One out of eight children die before the age of five.
• Seventy percent are unemployed.
• Life expectancy is 54 years.
• It has been deforested and environmentally degraded for years.
• 7.2 million Haitians do not have access to reliable energy.

Of course we've heard these kinds of statistics many times before -- about Haiti...

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