Clinton Calls for ‘Poverty Czar’
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton announced today that as president, she will Later in the day, in response to a request for comment from The New York Times, Mr. Edwards said he was pleased with Mrs. Clinton’s announcement.
“America’s need to address the great moral issue of poverty demands strong action, and a cabinet-level poverty position is exactly that kind of action,” Mr. Edwards said through a spokesman.
The cabinet idea was proposed Thursday by Martin Luther King III, in advance of today’s commemoration of his father’s assassination 40 years ago. In an op-ed column in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, he urged the presidential candidates to pledge that within their first 100 days of office, they would appoint a cabinet-level official “whose responsibility will be to make a measurable impact on eradicating poverty and allow more Americans to move up into our middle class.”