Interview on PBS' NOW on poverty. Family of 4 on less than $40 thousand are 1/3 of Americans. Altho working, the poor, in John Edwards' view, need to have govt responses to cut poverty in America by half. Discusses a "poverty czar" and how the incoming president needs to be involved. Global interdependence is a given in solving the problems he discuss here. |
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Margaret Bassett passed away August 21, 2011. She was a treasured member of the Opednews.com editorial team for four years.
Margaret Bassett--OEN editor--is an 89-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political philosophy. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboard into the lives of those who come after her.