![Mia Birdsong: The story we tell about poverty isn't true](https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/f41945e3407663d5a41b5843f2a5a499e2305147_2880x1620.jpg?h=200)
As a global community, we all want to end poverty. Mia Birdsong suggests a great place to start: Let's honor the skills, drive and initiative that poor people bring to the struggle every day. She asks us to look again at people in poverty: They may be broke — but they're not broken.