Black leaders urge swift federal action on poverty

Poverty-stricken minority neighborhoods across America are "zones of pain" in a "state of emergency" that deserve a swift federal response, a group of black leaders that include NAACP President Ben Jealous and Jesse Jackson said during a discussion on economic recovery at the Rainbow/PUSH annual conference Saturday.

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