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An Open Letter To The NC Justice Center

Tazra Mitchell of the North Carolina Justice Center, recently wrote:" I n 2006-2010, 143,445 North Carolinians who were poor lived in concentrated poverty, and the state’s concentrated poverty rate stood at 10.2 percent.The concentrated poverty rate in North Carolina more than doubled from 2000 to 2006-2010.During this time, the number of concentrated-poverty neighborhoods in the state nearlytripled, and the number of people living in these neighborhoods who were poor more thantripled.African Americans and Latinos living in North Carolina who were poor were more likely to livein concentrated poverty in 2006-2010,...

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Published By: Greensboro Performing Arts - Tuesday, 20 March, 2012