RE: RE: EDWARDS AND POVERTY. One element of the Edwards poverty appeal that has gotten very little attention, including from me, is the book he just released, Ending Poverty in America, which is wonky enough that even I haven't set aside the time to read it. I'm out of the office so I don't have it handy for a flip-through, but a glance at the table of contents is useful here. One of the chapters is "Why We Should Be Concerned About Young, Less Educated, Black Men" by Ronald B. Mincy and Hillard Pouncy, and another is "A New Agenda for America’s Ghetto Poor," by William Julius Wilson. Now, how much involvement Edwards had with the book, and how closely he read these chapters, aren't questions I can answer. But I do know he's spent a lot of time talking to Wilson, so he's presumably versed in some of these arguments. --Ezra Klein
