U.N.: Most of world's poor in rural areas

A U.N. report issued in New York showing 350 million people escaped poverty in the last 10 years shows most of the world's poor still live in rural areas. The Rural Poverty Report 2011, released Monday by the United Nations' International Fund for Agricultural Development, found an overall drop of extreme poverty -- people living less on $1.25 per day -- in rural areas over the past decade from 48 percent to 34 percent...