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• *Meeting the SNAP challenge: Eating on $4.20 a day
  Betsy Crites, Guest columnist, Herald-Sun, Sept 16, 2016, A13 SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program -- formerly Food Stamps, helps qualifying low-income people with a debit card for food purchases. As Joe and I quickly found out, the average allotment, $4.20 a day in North Carolina, is hardly enough for a healthy diet.
• American Dream, American Myth: The Decline Of Upward Mobility
  1A, with Joshua Johnson, Sept. 21, 2017 Is the deck stacked against upward mobility? Guests Elizabeth Valdivia Security guard and former secretary in Mountain View, California; member Service Employees International Union Aparna Mathur Resident scholar in economic policy studies, American Enterprise Institute @aparnamath @aparnamath Neil Irwin Senior economics correspondent, The New York Times @Neil_Irwin @aparnamath @Neil_Irwin Rick Wartzman Author, "The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America"; director, Center for a Functioning Society at The Drucker Institute of Claremont Graduate University @aparnamath @rwartzman John Bartlett COSTCO warehouse manager in Redmond, Washington; has worked for COSTCO for about 30 years since he was 18-years old
• Anti-poverty crusader Gene Nichol takes on North Carolina's 'Indecent Assembly'
  Rebekah Barber, Facing South, April 16, 2020
  In his latest book, "Indecent Assembly," UNC law professor and anti-poverty scholar Gene Nichol offers lessons from North Carolina politics for these turbulent times.
• Center for Guaranteed Income Research is Launched
  December 1, 2020
  University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Social Work Assistant Professor Dr. Stacia West, along with Dr. Amy Castro Baker, Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2), were recently named as co-leaders of the Center for Guaranteed Income Research. The Center was established by Mayors for a Guaranteed Income (MGI), together with the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2). Dr. West and Dr. Castro Baker served as the co-Principal Investigators of the first mayor-led guaranteed income pilot in Stockton, CA and leading academics in the space will guide pilot cities through a learning agenda and oversee the research design and implementation.
• Ending Child Poverty Now
  From the Children's Defense Fund: "this report shows that by investing an additional 2 percent of the federal budget into existing programs and policies that increase employment, make work pay, and ensure children’s basic needs are met, the nation could reduce child poverty by 60 percent and lift 6.6 million children out of poverty."
• Gene Nichol, The Faces of Poverty in North Carolina
  The Faces of Poverty in North Carolina: Stories from Our Invisible Citizens
  Gene R. Nichol, UNC Press, 2018.
  These are the faces of poverty in North Carolina: scores of homeless men, women, and children take refuge in makeshift camps, barely hidden in the woods near some of our most affluent neighborhoods. Hundreds wait in lines hours long to receive basic health care at underfunded free clinics. In large cities and small towns, children--especially children of color--rely on meals at their schools to keep hunger at bay, while parents struggle in jobs that fail to pay living wages. While many in the Tar Heel State enjoy unparalleled prosperity, those born into poverty have lower odds than ever of climbing the ladder of economic upward mobility. Today, more than 1.5 million North Carolinians live in poverty. More than one in five are children. Behind these sobering statistics are the faces of our fellow citizens. This book tells their stories.
  Since 2012, Gene R. Nichol has traveled the length of North Carolina, conducting hundreds of interviews with poor people and those working to alleviate the worst of their circumstances. Here their voices challenge all of us to see what is too often invisible, to look past partisan divides and preconceived notions, and to seek change. Only with a full commitment as a society, Nichol argues, will we succeed in truly ending poverty, which he calls our greatest challenge.
  (first chapter available in book preview)
• Helping The Poor Put Dinner On The Table Without Giving Them A Seat At The Table (
  1A.org, June 26, 2017 When President Donald Trump told an audience in Iowa that he didn’t want poor people in Cabinet positions, his remark was met with … applause. An estimated 40 million Americans live in poverty and appealing to their plight was once par for the course in politics. But who in Washington is looking out for poor communities today? And are the wealthy best-suited to design policies and programs that will give people the resources they need to rise out of poverty? Host: Joshua Johnson. Guests: Terrence McCoy Reporter, Washington Post Joan Maya Mazelis Assistant professor of sociology, Rutgers University - Camden; author, "Surviving Poverty: Creating Sustainable Ties Among The Poor" Michele Gilman Professor of law; director of the Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy Clinic; co-director of the Center on Applied Feminism, University of Baltimore Robert Doar Fellow in poverty studies, American Enterprise Institute
• High school poverty curriculum
  The N.C. Poverty Research Fund is pleased to present this curriculum for the study of poverty for high-school students. The curriculum was designed by Brian McDonald, a teacher at Jordan High School in Durham, NC.
• Human Intestinal Parasite Burden and Poor Sanitation in Rural Alabama
  Megan L. McKenna, Shannon McAtee, Patricia E. Bryan, Rebecca Jeun, Tabitha Ward, Jacob Kraus, Maria E. Bottazzi, Peter J. Hotez, Catherine C. Flowers and Rojelio Mejia. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Available online: 05 September 2017. We found that, among 24 households, 42.4% reported exposure to raw sewage within their home, and from 55 stool samples, 19 (34.5%) tested positive for N. americanus, four (7.3%) for Strongyloides stercoralis, and one (1.8%) for Entamoeba histolytica. News article in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/05/hookworm-lowndes-county-alabama-water-waste-treatment-poverty
• Inter-Faith Council for Social Services
• Mapping poverty in America. NY Times Jan 4, 2014
• NBC News - Paul Ryan Was the Winner of GOP Presidential Poverty Forum
  Paul Ryan Was the Winner of GOP Presidential Poverty Forum Leigh Ann Caldwell, NBC News, Jan 9 2016
• On the psychology of poverty
  On the psychology of poverty, Johannes Haushofer and Ernst Fehr, Science 23 May 2014;344:862-867 Abstract: Poverty remains one of the most pressing problems facing the world; the mechanisms through which poverty arises and perpetuates itself, however, are not well understood. Here, we examine the evidence for the hypothesis that poverty may have particular psychological consequences that can lead to economic behaviors that make it difficult to escape poverty. The evidence indicates that poverty causes stress and negative affective states which in turn may lead to short-sighted and risk-averse decision-making, possibly by limiting attention and favoring habitual behaviors at the expense of goal-directed ones. Together, these relationships may constitute a feedback loop that contributes to the perpetuation of poverty. We conclude by pointing toward specific gaps in our knowledge and outlining poverty alleviation programs that this mechanism suggests.
• Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
  We rise to demand that the 140 million poor and low-income people in our nation — from every race, creed, color, sexuality and place — are no longer ignored, dismissed or pushed to the margins of our political and social agenda.
  We rise not as left or right, Democrat or Republican, but as a moral fusion movement to build power, build moral activism, build voter participation, and we won’t be silent any more!
  We rise to change the moral narrative and demand that the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy/militarism and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism all be ended.
  We rise to challenge the lie of scarcity in the midst of abundance.
  We rise to lift the voices and faces of poor and low-income Americans and their moral allies with a new vision of love, justice, and truth for America that says poverty can be abolished and change can come.
• Poverty In The Triad: A Special Report
  Naomi Prioleau, WUNC Radio, four weekly installments, Aug. 14 - Sept 11, 2017
  Some of the deepest poverty in North Carolina is right in the middle of the largest cities like Charlotte, Greensboro, Durham, and Raleigh. One single mother in the Triad area is trying to break her family’s cycle of generational poverty.
• Rise in Loans Linked to Cars Is Hurting Poor
  Rise in Loans Linked to Cars Is Hurting Poor, by Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Michael Corkery, NY Times, Dec 25, 2014