Half in Ten: From Poverty to Prosperity

Senator John Edwards is chairing a campaign to cut poverty in half in the US over the next decade in coordination with the Coalition on Human Needs, The Center for American Progress Action Fund, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and Association of Community Organization for Reform Now. Half in Ten will seek federal and state solutions to cut poverty in half within ten years. Read more about the campaign at: http://www.halfinten.org/index.html and sign up to learn more.

Additionally, Edwards has been in touch with the three major presidential candidates about making commitments to the half in ten goal. You can read about their poverty positions at the Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity website http://www.spotlightonpoverty.org/.

The state of Illinois has its own campaign to cut extreme poverty in half by the year 2015.

From Poverty to Opportunity Campaign
Freedom from poverty is a human right, and the realization of this freedom requires a comprehensive vision and plan. To that end, Heartland Alliance has created the From Poverty to Opportunity Campaign: Realizing Human Rights in Illinois, an initiative of the Illinois Poverty Summit. This initiative works to bring together a broad range of residents from the most affected communities throughout the state as well as advocates and policy leaders to develop and advocate for a poverty elimination strategy anchored to human rights standards that will reduce extreme poverty in Illinois by half by the year 2015. CCIL endorses this campaign and has been an active participant in working on making this human right a reality.

Read more about the campaign at: http://www.heartlandalliance.org/maip/FromPovertytoOpportunityCampaignRealizingHumanRightsinIllinois.html
or talk about it: http://povertytoopportunity.blogspot.com/