Hillary Clinton Promotes Anti-Poverty Campaign In NYC

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton has helped to announce a new campaign that aims to harness science and technology to end extreme global poverty by 2030.

“We intend to try to change and better lives all over the world,” Clinton said Thursday in announcing the initiative in New York. “We intend to learn how better to scale successful efforts so they reach far more people.”

The U.S. Agency for International Development is undertaking the anti-poverty effort with 32 partners from private industry, colleges and universities, philanthropies and nongovernmental organizations. USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah said the campaign, called the U.S. Global Development Lab, will tackle issues such as the lack of clean water and access to education.

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