by Thomas Mills | Jan 18, 2018 | Editor's Blog, Poverty |
Republicans in Congress are about to cut off health insurance to millions of children across the country, including 95,000 here in North Carolina. It’s another failure of leadership and governing. The party that has no problem offering a windfall in tax cuts for the...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 19, 2016 | Editor's Blog, Poverty, Race |
Yesterday, we honored Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a man whose work included expanding access to the polls to people who had been denied the right to vote by laws passed by state governments. Until the Civil Rights Movement that King led jarred the conscience of the...
by John Wynne | Jun 23, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Democrats, Features, NC Politics, Poverty, US Senate |
While outgoing UNC President Tom Ross is sometimes mentioned as a potential candidate for U.S. Senate, there’s another academic whose transition to politics might come more naturally: Gene Nichol, law professor and Director of the Poverty Center at the...
by Thomas Mills | Jul 24, 2014 | Economy, Editor's Blog, Poverty |
Back in the early 1990s, I went to work as a human resource director for an aluminum die cast company. The company had moved to rural North Carolina from the Midwest because of low wages, low taxes and no unions. They hired me because their turnover rate was so high...