Edwards' tour highlights poverty
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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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Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, who focused his bid for the Democratic nomination on helping the middle class, will announce his withdrawal from the presidential race in a speech later on Wednesday.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards yesterday issued a blueprint aimed at providing health-care coverage for all Americans and said he would raise taxes to help pay the roughly $100 billion annual bill.
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The campaign of presidential hopeful John Edwards has a ready answer for all the criticism about his expensive haircuts and expansive home: A man can be wealthy and care about the poor, too.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards wants to provide health care for the 47 million people who currently lack it and reduce the cost of coverage for middle-class families
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Poverty can be quite educational. When you've got only so much money to spend, you'll think carefully about the goods you're buying.
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Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards says Jesus would be appalled at how the United States has ignored the plight of the suffering, and that he believes children should have private time to pray at school.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards canceled campaign events in Alabama and North Dakota to make a "major policy address on poverty" Wednesday in New Orleans, where he launched his presidential bid 13 months ago.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told Mississippi poultry plant employees on Monday that their plight demonstrated the government's shortcomings in addressing workers' wage and health issues.
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It was a family affair for the Edwards clan on Friday. Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards was taking questions from more than 100 people packed into a small bar, when his wife, Elizabeth, showed up just as a woman was asking about poverty.
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Amid energy crisis, S. American region is growing dependent on their continent's poorest country.
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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.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is bemoaning the growing divide between rich and poor as he returns to the signature theme of "Two Americas" from his unsuccessful 2004 White House bid.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards called on supporters packed into a charity thrift store Monday to help start a citizens' movement to fight poverty across America.
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John Edwardsâs and Mitt Romneyâs runs are based in large part on the lessons each has taken from his own success.
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A tiny Kentucky town beats out the likes of L.A. and Denver to land a high-profile visit from presidential contender John Edwards, thanks to the social networking savvy of a 24-year-old political junkie.
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MARKS, Miss., July 16 -- From the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans to the Mississippi Delta to this town where Martin Luther King Jr. began his Poor People's Campaign almost four decades ago, John Edwards's message has been the same: Americans living in poverty are working hard but need more help ...