![Gary Haugen: The hidden reason for poverty the world needs to address now](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/63afd4defc16088ed0b38318b048d6cf54c5a88c_2880x1620.jpg?h=200)
Collective compassion has meant an overall decrease in global poverty since the 1980s, says civil rights lawyer Gary Haugen. Yet for all the world's aid money, there's a pervasive hidden problem keeping poverty alive. Haugen reveals the dark underlying cause we must recognize and act on now.