The Poverty Project
Wednesday, September 29 2010
by Frank Stasio and Susan Davis
Photo credit: Billy E. Barnes; www.torightthesewrongs.com
The federal poverty line for a family of four living in the continental U.S. is $22,050. Sixteen percent of North Carolinians live below that level, according to the Census Bureau. There’s an effort underway at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to confront the moral challenge of poverty and how it relates to inequality. Can changing the conversation about poverty help poor people? The project is led by Duke Professor Bob Korstad and Jim Leloudis, a professor at UNC. Korstad is co-director of the Program on History, Public Policy and Social Change and Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Leloudis is UNC’s Associate Dean for Honors, and Director of the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence. They are also the co-authors of the book "To Right These Wrongs" (UNC Press/2010) and they’ll join host Frank Stasio to discuss poverty in North Carolina. Also joining the conversation is historian Rachel Siedman, Research and Policy Associate at the Kenan Institute for Ethics and director of the Poverty Project Lab; and Maureen Berner from the UNC School of Government.
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