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[|Human|] Summarize the issue of poverty in three sentences.
[|AI|] Poverty is a pervasive and enduring problem worldwide, affecting billions of people with varying degrees of severity. It is a multi-faceted issue, involving insufficient access to basic resources such as clean water, food, healthcare, and education. Poverties effects can be far-reaching and cyclical, perpetuating social, economic and political inequalities, and becoming a severe barrier to individual and collective progress.
[|Human|] 
Summarize the issue of poverty in three sentences.