The plan to double anti-poverty aid to $100 billion/year, cut debt, and improve trade may improve the lives of the 2 billion poorest people to the equivalent of 2 life-years, for a total of 4 billion life-years. Thus, the number of characters would be 4 billion life-years / 40,000 life-years/character = 100,000 characters. This article has 3600 characters, thus there could be many more articles on this topic.