Edwards To Attend Poverty Forum
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Senator Edwards is scheduled to be in New York today talking about poverty, of his bread and butter campaign issues. Mr. Edwards — who is competing against Senators Clinton and Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination — will be meeting with labor leaders from Local 32BJ and with members of the Community Service Society. The groups are holding a forum on poverty and the working poor. The appearance comes a day after the Community Service Society, a non-profit that works on poverty issues, released a report showing that while New York is enjoying its lowest unemployment rate in recent memory, that not everyone is reaping the benefits. It found the unemployment was particularly troublesome among young black and Hispanic men. Mr. Edwards, who ran a poverty center at the University of North Carolina after leaving the senate in 2004, is counting on labor support nationwide to buoy his candidacy.
