Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards listened to poultry workers’ allegations of low wages, unfair working conditions and unhealthy living environments during an hour-long meeting at a Canton church on Monday.
Edwards, his party’s vice presidential nominee in 2004, then traveled to Marks in Quitman County as part of a three-day road trip to impoverished U.S. communities. Marks, which is about 20 miles from Clarksdale, is where Martin Luther King Jr. launched his 1968 Poor People’s March to Washington.
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