Call goes our for solutions to poverty

WASHINGTON - Black and poverty are too often synonymous, and the nation needs an agenda of new policies to defeat poverty for everyone, said the participants at the Poverty, Race and Policy Forum organized by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Wednesday.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Baltimore, exhorted the organization and the audience to work on new proposals to solve the problem.

“It is not good enough to have a report, it’s how you bring it to life and make it work,” Cummings said.

A document from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, center of the forum’s discussion, said that 37 million Americans are living...