Presidential candidates overlook issue of poverty

Democrats from across the United States are in North Carolina for the party's National Convention which begins on Tuesday. The event is an opportunity for Barack Obama and his party to lay out their agenda for the 2012 presidential elections. Ironically, the percentage of Americans in poverty is higher now - 15.1 per cent - than it was in 1967, at the height of Johnson's War on Poverty. Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports from Charlotte in North Carolina.