Eliminating Poverty

Good article about poverty on Cafe Hayek on Friday. One thing that is missing from most discussions of poverty is some global perspective about the nature of "poverty" in this country. Here is an excerpt from the article:

Former Senator John Edwards "is planning to set up a center to study ways to alleviate poverty" – so reports the Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne.

My first reaction is: Don’t need it. We already know how to alleviate poverty: achieve economic freedom.