North Carolina Voices:Understanding Poverty; Seeds of Sustenance and a Harvest of Change: The Story of the North Carolina Fund
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Discussion of the North Carolina Fund and what it taught about dealing with poverty in North Carolina. The North Carolina Fund was a five-year initiative to fight poverty launched in 1963 by Governor Terry Sanford. At the time, half of the people living in the state were poor by some estimates, more than 40% of students did not graduate from 8th grade, and factory workers earned some of the lowest industrial wages in the nation. The North Carolina Fund initiated experimental projects in education, health, job training, housing, and community development. It focused on the links between poverty and race and served as a model for the national "War on Poverty". North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty is a series of reports, documentaries and call-in programs that aired on North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC in April 2005.
