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Title: The Persistent and Pervasive Challenge of Child Poverty and Hunger in North Carolina

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Publication Year: 2021

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Abstract: This report seeks to document and explore North Carolina’s twin challenges of child hunger and poverty. They constitute, jointly, one of the state’s most wrenching and most embarrassing problems. They are, as well, massively inadequately attended to, constituting little of our public policy discourse, deliberation and legislative focus. Ignoring the pervasive dignity- and opportunity-denying difficulties of so many of our youngest and most vulnerable members is increasingly impossible to square with our foundational commitments and declarations, our constitutions and our creeds

Url: https://www.publicschoolsfirstnc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/NC-child-poverty_report.pdf

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Authors: Nichol, Gene; Hunt, Heather

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Topics: Poverty and Welfare

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