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Week of May 6, 2007 - May 12, 2007
The Post Gets It Wrong: Edwards' Poverty Policy is Just What’s Needed
The Washington Post really got it wrong this AM on John Edwards and poverty.
The article criticizes Edwards for not bringing any new ideas to his signature issue: a plan to focus much more energy and resources on poverty reduction. But as someone who has studied this issue for decades, I can assure you of two things. First, there simply is no amazingly effective silver-bullet idea out there that we’ve somehow overlooked. And second, we know that some, not all, of the “old” ideas work.
The trick is to a) get the right combination of ideas working together, and b) build the political will to implement them. Edwards understands both.
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