Edwards begins tour to highlight poverty
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Linking the federal minimum wage to inflation and strengthening collective bargaining rights would be two steps toward the eventual elimination of poverty in America, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Monday.
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Democratic presidential contender John  Edwards on Wednesday mounted an attack on excessive executive  pay and soaring oil company profits, promising a series of  moves that he said would "restore balance between America's  corporations and America's working families."
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Traveling on his "poverty tour," Eric Pooley assesses the risky strategy of a candidate who tells the press: don't talk about me
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For a politician whose stock was built on sunny optimism, Sen. John Edwards is serving up plenty of bare-knuckled rhetoric on the campaign trail these days.
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Bloomberg - Jan. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential contender John Edwards, who's hit all 99 Iowa counties in a year of campaigning, set out on a 36-hour marathon trek across the state today to make a final pitch for support in the Jan. 3 caucuses.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Monday that raising the minimum wage and providing incentives to businesses for locating in impoverished communities could help struggling areas like the Delta region of east Arkansas.
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The leader of the main opposition Conservative party, David Cameron, arrived on Monday in Rwanda to outline his party&#39;s policies on fighting global poverty.
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While John Edwards was winding up a tour of America's most impoverished areas, another Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), came to Anacostia yesterday to stake his own claim as a poverty warrior -- and to present a vision for fixing struggling inner cities that directly...
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The Tories will put tackling poverty at the heart of their next election campaign, the BBC learns.
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While on a tour highlighting poverty this week, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards faced more questions about whether his focus on the issue was undermined by, among other things, his work at a hedge fund and his $6 million house. A closer look at his campaign finance reports reveals...
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Democratic Party vice presidential candidate John Edwards has sharpened criticism of the Bush Administration&#39;s conduct of the war in Iraq.
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FORT SMITH, Ark.   In his second Arkansas visit in less than two weeks, Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards on Tuesday lamented lost jobs and ineffective tax cuts that he laid at the door of the Bush administration.
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Looking to shake up Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead in the Democratic presidential race, John Edwards is making an ardent push for voters to turn away from Washington insiders and what he condemns as a corrupt political system.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards rolled out a program for reforming primary education in the United States on Friday, proposing to pay teachers up to $15,000 more in high poverty areas and initiating universal preschool.
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Vice presidential candidate John Edwards on Wednesday sought to assure black supporters that he and John Kerry have "fought for this community our entire lives" &#151; and would continue doing so &#151; on a day devoted to reaching out to the base in the Democratic stronghold of northeast Ohio.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards bemoaned the growing divide between rich and poor Thursday as he returned to the signature theme of "two Americas" from his unsuccessful 2004 White House bid.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told a labor group Tuesday that he would ask Americans to make a big sacrifice: their sport utility vehicles.