poverty
April 4, 2012 -
A new report on county health outcomes gets to the heart of the ideological debate.
January 16, 2012 -
In the final months of his life, Dr. King launched a Poor People's Campaign for economic justice with a familiar strategy: Occupying the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
January 6, 2012 -
The Truth and Hope Tour will focus attention on poverty in the Tar Heel State.
November 29, 2011 -
As record numbers of North Carolinians struggle to put enough food on the table, Duke Energy pushes for the biggest residential rate hike in 20 years -- while raking in huge profits and avoiding federal taxes.
October 27, 2011 -
A comprehensive new report from the Congressional Budget Office shows that the gap between rich and poor in the United States has grown dramatically over the past 30 years and is greatest in Southern cities.
October 20, 2011 -
North Mississippi Rural Legal Services is closing its office in the region's largest city and shuttering a unit that handles public benefits issues -- at the very time the public needs its services more than ever.
October 18, 2011 -
In the 1930s, with the country struggling to recover from the Great Depression, President Roosevelt labeled the South "America's Economic Problem Number 1." Today, there are troubling signs that it remains one of the nation's hardest-hit regions.
