Seeing the invisible
In urban North Carolina, deep pockets of misery are masked
Distressed urban tracts experience even higher levels of poverty, child poverty and unemployment – and lower income and graduation rates – than their rural counterparts. Surprisingly, the poorest parts of North Carolina are smack in the middle of...
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SEEING THE INVISIBLE
Seeing the Invisible: Desperate for dental work, an all-night wait
Limited access to dental services plagues North Carolina, which ranks 47th in dentists per capita. Only 16 percent of NC dentists accept Medicaid. In four counties (Currituck, Hyde, Perquimans and Tyrell), none does. "No one familiar with health care in North Carolina could be surprised at the gigantic...
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SEEING THE INVISIBLE
In a growing state, a growing hunger
In North Carolina, food insecurity is rapidly on the rise. In 2007, 12.6 percent of us were classified as hungry. Last year, it was 19.6 percent, or 1.9 million. Twenty-eight percent of our children, over 622,000, meet the federal standard. We have the tenth highest food insecurity rate in the United...
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SEEING THE INVISIBLE
The picked-on in Brunswick County’s paradise
While current poverty rates in Royal Oak are higher than state averages, the community is principally comprised of longstanding, long-residenced, working-class families – families that have been repeatedly assaulted by Brunswick County in its placement of necessary nuisances.
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Digging into NC districts, desperation easy to find
If our leaders are adamant to reject the data on NC poverty, perhaps they could simply turn to the people of their districts. Are hundreds of homeless Onslow school kids “poor”? Are veterans living in the woods of Jacksonville “impoverished”? Are moms, desperate for work...
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OTHER VIEWS
Full of courage, smarts, yet facing empty future
Each year, thousands of undocumented North Carolina immigrants are effectively excluded from our higher education system. In the process, they’re relegated to a regime of low-wage jobs and an expanding circle of poverty. We lose all the way round.
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SEEING THE INVISIBLE
The shocking burden of $800 light bills
The poorest citizens in the poorest communities in North Carolina often pay the highest rates for electricity.
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OTHER VIEWS
Seeing the Invisible: ‘What are we doing for the least of these?’
New Beginnings Emergency Shelter in Elizabeth City is nothing if not inconspicuous. A modest, two-story house on Herrington Road, it disappears into the ragged neighborhood. A small sign out front – “On The Solid Foundation” – hints at its purpose.
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SEEING THE INVISIBLE
Video: Follow a homeless specialist in Fayetteville
Ride along with Fayetteville Police Department's homeless specialist Stacy Sanders on a routine patrol as she checks in with some of Cumberland County's estimated 1,600 homeless residents living in shelters, woods and under bridges.
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SEEING THE INVISIBLE
In NC, poverty pervades as we evade
In Part 1 of a yearlong look at poverty in the state, UNC professor Gene Nichol has led a statewide look into the faces and causes of poverty, a condition that includes nearly 1 in every 5 North Carolinians.
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