Time To End Poverty

A JRE commentary forthcoming in Sojourner magazine:

You can tell a lot about people by how they treat their neighbors in need.
by Sen. John Edwards

Poverty is one of the great moral issues of our time. It cuts to the heart of America’s great promise: that anyone who works hard and plays by the rules will have the opportunity to build a better life for themselves and their family. And I believe that the American people are ready to do something about it if our leaders are willing to ask them.

You can tell a lot about people by how they treat their neighbors in need. And I believe that you can tell a lot about a country’s character by how they treat millions of people who live at the margins and below: Do we send them to the shadowy corners or do we bring them to the center of our lives? We know in our hearts that in a country of our wealth and our prosperity to have so many Americans live lives of endless struggle is wrong.

LINK to read the rest of the article. Thanks to Jeebie at JREG for finding this.