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Politicians ignore poverty as an issue

Reuters reports that the "war on poverty slips from U.S. election agenda":
Hurricane Katrina exposed an underclass of poor Americans to the rest of the world, but poverty has slipped off the agenda in the runup to midterm congressional elections next month.