Community Action Partnership Calls for Anti-Poverty Bill

"The Community Action Partnership, the nation's largest anti-poverty organization, is calling for a comprehensive, national anti-poverty bill and has written President Bush and the Congressional Black Caucus about this critical effort. "The time is now to eradicate poverty," said Derrick Len Span, national president of the Community Action Partnership, speaking today to a group of journalists meeting in Nashville. Copies of the letters appear below." [Read more]