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Understanding Poverty
A two-week radio series on North Carolina Public Radio- WUNC April 11-22 2005
More than forty years ago, North Carolina started its own war on poverty. Today, more than a million people in the state live below the federal poverty line. Who are they? Why are they poor? And what has changed since the 1960s?
- Documentaries
- Reports
- Interviews and listener calls on The State of Things
- Photos
- A Public Opinion poll on perceptions of poverty
- North Carolina poverty past and present: Historical data, photos and more
- "What is Poverty?"- audio portraits, definitions of poverty and more
- Series Credits
& Newsletters
