We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations climate control pollution poverty and disease.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

In Philadelphia our public safety poverty reduction health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education poverty and drugs. Two of them we talk about and one of them we don't.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.