Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, a Democrat running for President, campaigned today in Manchester.
He told those gathered at St. Anselm's College, that he has a plan to eliminate poverty in 30 years.
NHPR correspondent Brian Early reports.
John Edwards said he would eradicate poverty by creating what he called "a working society."
This includes increasing the minimum wage, strengthening labor laws, creating affordable homes near good schools, and tax credits for working families.
Poverty, Edwards said, was keeping the United States from greatness:
"It's expensive for America for us to have so many Americans who live in poverty. We all pay a price when young people who could someday find a cure for AIDS, or make a fuel cell work, are stuck on a stoop because they never got the education they needed."
Edwards also endorsed worldwide universal primary education in seven years and eliminating global poverty. He said poverty was a driving force behind terrorism.
For NHPR News, I'm Brian Early in Manchester.
