Former Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards is beginning a campaign this morning in Philadelphia, as the chairman of a new effort to cut U.S. poverty by 50 percent in the next 10 years, according to an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The group is called Half in Ten and is a compilation of many other groups. The group will build support for practical legislation to attack poverty, such as expanding child-care assistance programs and increasing minimum wage laws.

“We’re going to be out there pushing legislators, pushing the Congress, pushing presidential candidates . . . and making sure that Americans, not just politicians, are responding” to the issue, Edwards said last week on NBC’s Today Show.

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