CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Ending poverty is perhaps the single largest issue facing the nation, former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards said Wednesday. "We must end poverty in America because the content of our country's character is at stake," Edwards said at a forum sponsored by Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Thirty-six million Americans live in poverty, Edwards said, and the private sector as well as the government has a responsibility to address it. He said it was wrong that large corporations paid their CEOs millions of dollars while paying thousands of workers $7 per hour. Edwards said...
