In the first global poverty proposal of the 2008 presidential campaigns, John Edwards said solving global poverty is a moral imperative and a security issue. Edwards promises to transform America's approach to the world through primary education, preventive health, and greater economic and political opportunity. Specifically, he vows to appoint a new cabinet-level position within the White House to coordinate global development and to replace the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 with a new Global Development Act. CGD's Sarah Jane Staats (Hise) applauds Edwards for being the first presidential candidate of the '08 campaigns to put forth a proposal on global poverty and asks: who's next? Read the blog and comment
