A reminder…

…from Katrina vanden Heuvel.

One in eight Americans -- approximately 37 million people -- now live below the federal poverty line of $19,971 for a family of four. (A woefully inadequate measure that is 42 years old and fails to account for basic necessities.)

Which reminds me of John Edwards. Remember John Edwards? Remember the candidates who were going to honor his commitment to the poor among us? Whatever happened to that?